The Mass Psychology of Fascism

[Paul Mackin]

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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