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Authoritarians
Nov. 25th, 2009 07:20 pmI am in the middle of reading a book on the authoritarian personality, available as a download from the author at http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/
It's like a series of lectures from someone who knows how to keep the students interested: pacey, funny, interesting.
And scary as all hell.
I know a couple of people who fit his description of the authoritarian personality. The double standards, the compartment thinking, the following aurthority. The book's skewed somewhat towards the US/Canadian end of things as the author's been studying this there all his academic life but the theory travels.
I highly recommend it, as it covers a lot of the rage one sees on the net.
It's like a series of lectures from someone who knows how to keep the students interested: pacey, funny, interesting.
And scary as all hell.
I know a couple of people who fit his description of the authoritarian personality. The double standards, the compartment thinking, the following aurthority. The book's skewed somewhat towards the US/Canadian end of things as the author's been studying this there all his academic life but the theory travels.
I highly recommend it, as it covers a lot of the rage one sees on the net.