The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness

Posted by deleted 8 months, 3 weeks ago to Science
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I have mentioned this book before on here but couldn't remember the title. I was digging in my closet in an ancient (2006) box and found it. Worth reading for understanding, to prevent anyone's Gulch from going into Madness. I'm categorizing it under Science because...it is.


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  • Posted by 8 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Savage's book I read that one too. It's more sarcasm and vitriol than psychology but fun.
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  • Posted by 8 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    I've seen him on The Blaze. Glenn Beck...the fusion of enlightenment and entertainment...did I remember that right?
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    I've been a fan since his days on Fox. He's got his own network on the interweb now, The Blaze. Don't know if you knew that or not.
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  • Posted by 8 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    I remember when Glenn Beck was on AM Radio in early 2000s. I loved his show. Him and Savage took the cake...and Phil Hendrie.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Doesn't mean we're perfect, just means we have a Conscience and feel bad when we screw up! Laughing.
    However, we do use Both Halves of the Brain and thru the Mind, have a modicum of control over "some" of the temptations of the physical brain.

    Ps Kakistocracy is my favorite word. Learned it from Glenn Beck. (government by the worst [AND] least qualified)

    Also, attempted the discussion in: The Fight for Conscious Human LifeĀ©
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  • Posted by 8 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    I learned a new word! Kakistocracy! A bunch of looting and lying social climbers in government.

    I'm surprised so many people are introspective.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 months, 3 weeks ago
    The Liberal Mind should read: The Liberal Brain!, they have no mind.
    Just as I advised that "Julian Jaynes's book: The Bicameral Mind" should have read: The Bicameral Brain because our old testament ancestors had yet to achieve entrance to the mind.

    A small portion of Mankind has only been "Introspective" (Consciously aware of his own awareness) for about 2500 to 3000 years. At the present time it is speculated that 40 to 50% of the population is Introspective. (Marcel Knutson of the Julian Jaynes Society).
    So, as you see, that leaves out all modern day liberals and 99% if all the creatures in the worlds Kakistocracy's.

    Ps, I have and read: The Liberal Mind, so long ago, I'd forgotten.
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  • Posted by 8 months, 3 weeks ago
    Why do modern liberals think and act as they do? The radical left's politics and its destructive effects on our basic freedoms have provoked many to speculate on what makes these people tick.

    The Liberal Mind answers the question. This book is the first systematic analysis of the political madness that now threatens to destroy the West's greatest achievement: the American dream of civilized liberty.

    "Modern liberalism's irrationality can only be understood as the product of psychopathology. So extravagant are the patterns of thinking, emoting, behaving and relating that characterize the liberal mind that its relentless protests and demands become understandable only as disorders of the psyche."

    The Liberal Mind reveals the madness of the modern liberal for what it is: a massive transference neurosis acted out in the world's political arenas, with devastating effects on the institutions of liberty.
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