Weyrich letter

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 02:17 PM 8/8/00 -0400, Kelley wrote:
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>>CB: Seems like cultural anthropology's concept of culture has taken over 
>>as the/a  predominant paradigm for social analysis. "Culture" is such a 
>>squishy , maleable concept. What causes a culture to collapse ? Satan ?
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>>Also, isn't it a sort of hopeful sign , a light at the end of the 
>>rightwing tunnel we are in , that rightwingers _think_ things are going 
>>bad for them ?
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>no because i think that the heart of a right wing philosophy is the idea 
>that things have *always* gone bad for them.  they've beent rying to stave 
>off social and economic change and that was the heart of conservative 
>politics during the rise of modern political ideologies.
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>kelley

correct - that is confirmed inter alia by the _authoritarian personality_
studies showing that the essence of the authoritarian mindset is being
under a constant threat by assorted conspiracies; this in turn is linked to
their rigidly hierarchical view of society - every group that does not
accept "their place" in that hierachy is perceived as a threat to the
entire civilisation.

wojtek