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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Steel Trap

Another article which attempts to tackle the endlessly stuck into perpetuity authoritarian mind.

Lots of freakin' luck with that, although it is always worth reminding ourselves that the political "enemy" will remain, stay, be implanted, embedded, stuck. Nothing is going to change about that no matter how hard we pretend it can or will or that some amazing lightning strike will do the job.

AlterNet: The Republican Brain: Why Even Educated Conservatives Deny Science -- and Reality
A kind of “authoritarian activation” needs to occur, and it happens through the development of political “expertise.” Consuming a lot of political information seems to help authoritarians feel who they are—whereupon they become more accepting of inequality, more dogmatically traditionalist, and more resistant to change.

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