Saturday, February 17, 2018

Rings a Bell That Tolls for Thee


Art by Tamila Vdovina of the Czech Republic

- Authoritarian submission. Submissive, uncritical attitude toward idealized moral authorities of the in-group.
- Authoritarian aggression. Tendency to be on the lookout for, and to condemn, reject, and punish people who violate conventional values.
- Anti-intraception. Opposition to the subjective, the imaginative, the tender-minded.
- Superstition and stereotypying. The belief in mystical determinants of the individual’s fate; the disposition to think in rigid categories.
- Power and “toughness.” Preoccupation with the dominance-submission, strong-weak, leader-follower dimension, identification with power-figures; overemphasis on the domineering ego; exaggerated assertion of strength and toughness.
- Destructiveness and cynicism. Generalized hostility, vilification of the human.
- Projectivity. The disposition to believe that wild and dangerous things go on in the world; the projection outwards of unconscious emotional impulses.
- Sex. Exaggerated concern with sexual “goings-on.”
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So you tell me. Who am I describing? A typical Trump supporter, or a textbook fascist?

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