NP(sorta): The Mass Psychology of Fascism

[Ian Livingston]

You might also consider Wilber's AQAL model in regard to mass
psychology: the stages of development in the individual and in
society, how social pressure limits personal development, etc.

Other secondary allusive notions might include Dostoevsky, even,
certainly Kafka and the function of bureaucracy as a haven of cruelty,
hence, too, Melville's Barnaby, or better The Lightning Rod Salesman
as a symptom / symbol of social hysteria.

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Sonia Johnson
<sonia.kim.johnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> For some historical background on how and why the psychology of fascism
> became a popular American concern, I'd recommend "'Politics in an Age of
> Anxiety': Cold War Political Culture and the Crisis in American Masculinity,
> 1949-1960" by K. A. Cuordileone (The Journal of American History, Vol. 87,
> No. 2 (Sep., 2000), pp. 515-545).
>
>



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"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant