Why are you giving oxygen to yet another damn poll? It seems to me to prove that name recognition is the critical feature for way too many voters. Loads of folks have noted (most recently Heather Cox Richardson in today's post) that people want authoritarian rule because they get to stop having to think about issues--apparently even reme…
Why are you giving oxygen to yet another damn poll? It seems to me to prove that name recognition is the critical feature for way too many voters. Loads of folks have noted (most recently Heather Cox Richardson in today's post) that people want authoritarian rule because they get to stop having to think about issues--apparently even remembering a famous name is too much strain. All polls do at this point is to exacerbate the follow-the-herd mentality. "Oh, everyone likes RFK JR? Better plan to vote for him."
We live in a society lobotomized by reality TV and car chases as an art form. Why think when your brain can be FED comforting lines? TV, TikTok, Instagram tell us what we think we need to know. The most telling new word for our mindlessness is "influencers."
Not all of society is prey to this. November 2024 is really going to be a test of whether there are more thinkers or comfortable sponges in our voting population.
the phenomenon of preferring authoritarian rule, because freedom is scary, is hardly a new thing. Wilhelm Reich wrote eloquently about this in a BUNCH of books. and if the Reichian Orgonomy stuff struck readers as being a bridge or two too far, there's always Erich Fromm. these guys were Jewish thinkers writing in the immediate wake of WWII, so they had plenty of skin in the game, as did the members of the Frankfurt School, who get trashed today by people who have no idea what they were actually about.
Reich is indeed a bit much, but I am cool with the Frankfurt School., at least those I've read. I actually knew Leo Lowenthal. I worked for the library at the Stanford Behavior Science Center when he was a Fellow there. Fetched many a book from the Stanford Library for him; he was big on Interlibrary Loan.
It has been a long time since we've seen so many people actually YEARNING to be under Big Father's protective thumb, as opposed to accommodating a fait accompli. They have truly no idea what will happen when the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party starts getting hungry.
Why are you giving oxygen to yet another damn poll? It seems to me to prove that name recognition is the critical feature for way too many voters. Loads of folks have noted (most recently Heather Cox Richardson in today's post) that people want authoritarian rule because they get to stop having to think about issues--apparently even remembering a famous name is too much strain. All polls do at this point is to exacerbate the follow-the-herd mentality. "Oh, everyone likes RFK JR? Better plan to vote for him."
We live in a society lobotomized by reality TV and car chases as an art form. Why think when your brain can be FED comforting lines? TV, TikTok, Instagram tell us what we think we need to know. The most telling new word for our mindlessness is "influencers."
Not all of society is prey to this. November 2024 is really going to be a test of whether there are more thinkers or comfortable sponges in our voting population.
What you say is why I posted this.
Well said and right on the money, Susan.
the phenomenon of preferring authoritarian rule, because freedom is scary, is hardly a new thing. Wilhelm Reich wrote eloquently about this in a BUNCH of books. and if the Reichian Orgonomy stuff struck readers as being a bridge or two too far, there's always Erich Fromm. these guys were Jewish thinkers writing in the immediate wake of WWII, so they had plenty of skin in the game, as did the members of the Frankfurt School, who get trashed today by people who have no idea what they were actually about.
Reich is indeed a bit much, but I am cool with the Frankfurt School., at least those I've read. I actually knew Leo Lowenthal. I worked for the library at the Stanford Behavior Science Center when he was a Fellow there. Fetched many a book from the Stanford Library for him; he was big on Interlibrary Loan.
It has been a long time since we've seen so many people actually YEARNING to be under Big Father's protective thumb, as opposed to accommodating a fait accompli. They have truly no idea what will happen when the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party starts getting hungry.
isn't the point of all those guys that they NEVER do.
and the historical memory is so short; we see m to have given it up so EASILY.