Littleton: it's Adorno's fault <fwd>

kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca
Sat Sep 25 13:35:42 PDT 1999


Is this the article in question?

http://www.larouchepub.com/lar_littleton_2627.html

Lookie here, a quote:

The spread of witchcraft cults is one of those important steps downward.

Admittedly, witchcraft cults as such do reflect, and include the same quality of state of mind as that reported in the case of the Littleton killers. We shall show that connection in the appropriate location below. William James, however, does not have the last word in bringing about the modern abuse of the term "cult." Beginning the 1920s, a literally satanic view of the matter was popularized through the spread of the influence of the so-called "Frankfurt School" of Theodor Adorno and Anti-Defamation League-promoted ideologue Hannah Arendt.

**** Did you get that?!? A satanic view was "popularized" by the Frankfurt School and Hanna Arendt!!!

Notable for its influence in the U.S.A., is Arendt's anti-rationalist doctrine of "the authoritarian personality."

**** It should be noted that this is the title of an empirical study by Adorno, not Arendt...

Radical existentialist Arendt's personal moral perversion is symptomized by her role as a one-time Jewish collaborator of Nazi philosopher Martin Heidegger. She, echoing Adorno, formulated her cultish dogma, her doctrine of "the authoritarian personality," as a call for a neo-Kantian witch-hunt against any person who seeks the truth, a policy which Arendt sets explicitly against reason itself.[55]

The kinds of cult-formations inspired by the phenomenologist and existentialist teachings of Heidegger, Jaspers, Adorno, and Arendt, et al., go far beyond the original putative usage of cult, even qualitatively beyond the moral degeneracy intrinsic to American pragmatism, and other common forms of radical empiricism generally.

**** HOLY SHIT!!! Is there any way of holding someone accountable for this?

smitten, absolutely smitten, ken



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