On 18 May 2007 23:52:19 -0700, Acrux <mailfree@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>The dialogue with you makes me fully aware of the origin and the
>nature of some dreadful phenomena of the modern mentality: the
>dissatisfaction, the uncertainty, the rebellion, the intimate
>unhappiness of the contem****ary human beings.
>They have lost the deep, metaphysical sense of the existence, the
>meaning of their own life, the hope of any destiny.
>The Light illuminating all the environment has been extinguished, and
>all the men are going on like blind ones, looking for a point of
>orientation and sup****t, getting cross at each other and embracing one
>another as at random.
>
>Website of the author www.lorenzocrescini.it/right
>Email ricercapap@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
that or the world is being run by conservatives.....which in truth
is a sickness of
the mind, not a mere "difference of opinion". It arose in response to the
lack of
environmental "governors" on the genetic predispositions of a social
animal whose knack
for adaptability radically outpaced our natures ability to evolve a social
system that
matches our newfound ability to horde wealth and thereby come together in
large
settlements where different crafts and abilities led to hierarchies in
social status, the
ability to pay standing armies to protect excess wealth, etc, etc. all
within the last
10,000 years or so, a blink in time to evolution, but long enough to
create an environment
that is completely alien to the social behaviors we evolved over the
million years of
small egalitarian hunter-gathers we always were...and who would no doubt
banish or kill
the very people we now are supposed to admire.
Researchers help define what makes a political conservative
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/07/22_politics.shtml
BERKELEY – Politically conservative agendas may range from sup****ting
the Vietnam War to
upholding traditional moral and religious values to opposing welfare. But
are there
consistent underlying motivations?
Four researchers who culled through 50 years of research literature about
the psychology
of conservatism re****t that at the core of conservatism is the resistance
to change and
toleration of the unfaulted social/financial inequities. Some of the more
common
psychological factors linked to political conservatism include:
Fear and aggression
Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity
Uncertainty avoidance
Need for cognitive closure
Terror management
Four psychologists sought patterns among 88 samples, involving 22,818
participants, taken
from journal articles, books and conference papers. The material
originating from 12
countries included speeches and interviews given by politicians, opinions
and verdicts
rendered by judges, as well as experimental, field and survey studies.
Ten meta-analytic calculations performed on the material - which included
literature and
approaches from different countries and groups - yielded consistent,
common threads.
The avoidance of uncertainty, for example, as well as the striving for
certainty, are
particularly tied to one key dimension of conservative thought - the
resistance to change
or hanging onto the status quo.
The terror management feature of conservatism can be seen in post-Sept. 11
America, where
many people appear to shun and even punish outsiders and those who
threaten the status of
cherished world views.
Concerns with fear and threat, likewise, can be linked to a second key
dimension of
conservatism - an endorsement of inequality, a view reflected in the
Indian caste system,
South African apartheid and the conservative, segregationist politics of
the late Sen.
Strom Thurmond (R-South S.C.).
Disparate conservatives share a resistance to change and acceptance of
inequality, the
authors said. Hitler, Mussolini, and former President Ronald Reagan were
individuals, but
all were right-wing conservatives because they preached a return to an
idealized past and
condoned inequality in some form. Talk host Rush Limbaugh can be described
the same way.
cont...
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