[lbo-talk] This is WAR, sons!

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Wed Jul 7 09:11:50 PDT 2004


I'm not so sure about the "natural cognitive predisposition" -- I don't see why mother nature should get blamed for lickspittles.

Joanna

John Lacny wrote:


>Wojtek Sokolowski writes:
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>>People who have a natural inclination toward the
>>first cognitive style will adhere to whatever
>>conventional norms and political structures
>>surround them -- they are devout communists
>>under the Soviet regime, ardent GOPniks in the
>>US, staunch Afrikaners in the apartheid South
>>Africa -- in a word, pro-establishment in any
>>country or society in which they find themselves.
>>Again, this has nothing to do with their status as
>>immigrants but with their natural cognitive
>>predisposition -- immigration merely reveal
>>their chameleon-like ability to blend in with the
>>status quo.
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>Well, there you have it, Wojtek has come right out
>and said that he subscribes to Adorno's "Authoritarian
>Personality" thesis. I think maybe he's right, though.
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