The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Paul Mackin
paul.mackin at verizon.net
Wed May 17 16:14:39 CDT 2006
On May 17, 2006, at 3:07 PM, Ghetta Life wrote:
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>> From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
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>> On May 16, 2006, at 3:33 PM, Henry Musikar wrote:
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>>> If Reich was just another crackpot, then:
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>>> 1. Why did the US Feds bust up his equipment, burn his
>>> notebooks, and put him in jail? (It can't happen here [see
>>> "extreme rendition," and since when did rendition mean...?)
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>>> Henry M
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>> Maybe the government figured we already had enough crackpots.
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> Using the term "The Government" as if it were a personality with
> coherent intentions is paranoid to begin with. There is no single
> entity that can be addressed as such. "The Government" is an
> multitudinous and protean thing. "It" changes with the office
> holders' goals and political capital. Sometimes it is locked into
> stalemate with itself, and othertimes it is an unstoppable
> steamroller. Trying to validate or incriminate a person or
> movement based on the (re)actions of "The Government" is falcious
> in the extreme. "The Government" is often idiotic and incoherent.
As Will Rogers once said, "Thank heavens we're not getting all the
government we pay for."
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> Ghetta
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