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Great job guys! I read "The Authoritarian Specter" myself, and you did a nice covering of that book.

I often reflect upon the polarized political discussions of today, and how RWA's can only think in black and white terms - There is a lot of damage being inflicted by these people on our culture...

@satoau1 Ooh! Good point!

Who created this video? What is their agenda? The history of education and social engeneering is a complex subject, this is ONLY looking at the negative side of this topic. WHY? What does the creator of this video get out of our moral outrage?

@LDS4Life71 Well now that we have that out in the open, I'd like you to go back and read my posts and tell me when I badmouthed the LDS church.

All I said was "hang in there we are with you" which says NOTHING about your church. Perhapse your thin-skin comes from the fact that mormons are a per...

Because he's rationalizing and minimizing the crimes. This rationalization is a psychological defense against the moral consequences of his and his nation's behavior. He's not a psychopath, he's a right-wing authoritarian.

A psychopath does't NEED a rationalization for his behavior, because he...

(cont) As such there is no way to seperate "noise" from "signal."

On top of this he is making huge leaps of supposition, and then building off of them without looking at alternative explanations.

That was actually a pretty cool video.

Yes, that's right believe what I beleive or be tortured for all eternity.

What an evil man you are.

Woot! First one to post and first one to like it!

Very interesting study, Is there a link to the study in written form? I have a use for this info!

Note the strategy - bash Mahr by accusing him of acting EXACTLY like Fox News does, then have Pretty Girls chime in to pile on. This is a classic propaganda tactic - people weigh the opinons of attractive women more highly than other sources, simply because beauty = status in humans. It's like ...

You had me until you got to that "mark of the beast" crap.

The idea that bronze and iron age mystics had some magical knowledge that we lack is laughable. There is nothing that they practiced that we (in some corner of society) are not still practicing. You just can't make money off of it, so ...

This idea is one of the core principals in a new and emerging worldview. It is based on evolution, synergy and change as a norm.

I don't know what to predict from this process, but I'm SURE it's going to be weird and outside of any one group's control. I just hope it's not too bloody.

But we...

Actually, it's not "higher being" it's "higher power."

Examples of higher powers include:

The Judge who has control over your life

The community

Your family

The constitution.

Gingrich is presuming a deity as the higher being. This is good political strategy, but it's intellectually dishonest....

Great vidoe!

If the corporate elite can keep us dependant on them for food, clothing and shelter, then they control us. This is why the goverment is mostly OK with the death of main-street. It centralizes power, and boy that sure makes governing easier.

Big corporations and goverment are two arms of the sa...

LOL! All of those trees died in vain! Awsome!

@philg379 I don't know what "fully conscious" means. I'm an interovert, so I'm pretty self-aware, but I'm not so good at noticing what is going on with others. My Girlfriend is an extrovert. She is EXCELLENT at reading people in groups.

This illustrates that "conscious" is a broad term with a...

@keriscorp None of the above. I would just rather be hopefull than scaird.

Which is not to say that i believe there is nothing to fear.

@MRKetter81 That's part of the problem. But the fact remains that it is the WEALTH of insurance companies that is corrupting the goverment in order to creat these laws that benefit them at the expense of the consumer.

Money is political authority by other means. The goverment is the guys with ...

Wow, awesome video!

@wolfsadfree God is a character in a story. You have been taught by culture and by the naturally occuring suffering in your life to believe that that story is historically accurate, and that the character is a real person.

I know I can't convince you of my position, since you hold yours on fait...

Two points:

1) This video assumes a "blank slate" model of human nature. This is not true. We are not simply a product of our upbringing. The human capacity for violence is not unlearnable.

2) The rate of violent death ls going down over history not up.

Read Steven Pinker "The Blank Slate...

@moshikon44 What distingushes concervatives from liberals is that conservatives tend to more strongly ally themselves with the prevailing political power structure, who they identify as a legitimate authority. Prevailing power structure = concervative. Institutionalized authority -> institution...