| | Benway69 | Mar 25, 2007 10:40pm | | Discuss. |
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Sponsor |  Laukev7 | Mar 25, 2007 11:29pm | | Many experts have classified Right Wing Authoritarianism as a mental condition. |
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| | Benway69 | Mar 25, 2007 11:45pm | | I'll get back to this, but basically it's impossible for anyone with empathy or a conscience to cause the level of death and suffering that these people do. People associate psychopaths with TV serial killers but thats not the whole truth. Socio and psychopaths can appear totally normal most of the time only betrayed by a failure to understand concepts such as compassion. |
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Sponsor | | Laukev7 | Mar 25, 2007 11:52pm | I completely agree. Especially the people who still support the neocons today. They are a bunch of heartless beasts. People who advocate torture and bombing civilians cannot possibly be sane people.
(I was going to direct you to the rant i had on that topic, but apparently you,ve already read it.) |
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|  norse-jb | May 20, 2007 4:29am | | I dont know....I really think that you will find that what you all class as "right wing authoritarianism" and "liberal leftism" both feed from the same trough, when you look at it from the bigger picture. |
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Sponsor | | Bunty | May 20, 2007 6:14am | Elements of them will.
I think that to pigeon hole fascists as being psychopathic personalities is too much of a simplification really, one that would conceal all the other aspects such as group narcissism, social identity threat, existential anxiety and all that jazz.
The lack of empathy, and psychopathic outlook towards outsiders is, I would say: a symptom. The root cause is the neurotic society that brings people up so twisted that they don't have the individual confidence and security to define themselves. And, so feel the need to align themselves with (often extreme) groups, ideologies, and -isms (or even sports teams etc), by which they can define their identity, and feel 'pride' and fulfilment in being themselves. |
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Sponsor | | Laukev7 | May 20, 2007 9:08am | I dont know....I really think that you will find that what you all class as "right wing authoritarianism" and "liberal leftism" both feed from the same trough, when you look at it from the bigger picture.
Not saying I agree or disagree, but can you tell us what you mean by 'liberal leftism', and why you think it's similar to RWA? |
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Sponsor | | Bunty | May 20, 2007 9:19am | | Altermayer ( home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/ [home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/] ) reckons that there isn't such a thing as liberal authoritarianism. Suspect he is just using a very narrow definition of it though, to suit. I would say that any overt attempts to get someone else to conform (whether it be by force or persuasion or psychological manipulation) to one's own beliefs is a form of authoritarianism. 'Liberals' tend to be just as guilty of that as right wingers, although generally technically for more altruistic reasons... |
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|  DryFact | May 20, 2007 9:44am | | 9: so you're saying that liberal democracy is a form of covert social control? |
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