VLVL2(14) Misoneism 272-3

[Toby G Levy]

I'm suprised there's been no discussion of the following passage from
pp272-3:

[Brock Vond] "was a devotee of the thinking of pioneer criminologist
Cesare Lombroso(1836-1909)...What really got his attention was the
Lombrosian concept of 'misoneism.'  Radicals, militants, revolutionaries,
however they styled themselves, all sinned against this deep organic
human principle, which Lombroso had named after the Greek for 'hatred of
anything new.' It operated as a feedback device to keep societies coming
along safely, coherently. Any sudden attempt to change would be answered
by an immediate misoneistic backlash, not only from the State but from
the people themselves -- Nixon's election in '68 seeming to Brock a
perfect example of this."

It seems to me that this is important to understanding the forces of
reaction in this book.  and the forces of reaction in today's world as
well. Could there be any other way to understand the success (so far) of
the Bush cabal than misoneism?

Toby

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