Loyalty ot the Alpha or Loyalty to the Ideal
Authoritarian personalities have the natural inclination to follow the herd alpha leader mindlessly and blindly. These instincts are counter to moral and civilized behavior. Consequently, conservatives almost always end up as criminals and social pariahs. Their salvation lies in the fact that they are the vast majority of the people. In the U.S. they make up about 90% of the population.
Rush Limbaugh, right-wing radio talk show host and epitome of the authoritarian personality, once stated that all drug abusers should get an automatic 20 years in prison. When Limbaugh was caught abusing drugs, he quickly changed his high-mined attitude about punishment for drug usage. His listeners, who were devout advocates of his pre-larceny position, suddenly made an exception when their alpha became the perpetrator.
Ronald Reagan claimed to be a staunch defender of law-and-order. Then he was caught selling weapons to a terrorist nation, an act of treason. He went on television and confessed to the crime. His flock of followers fully forgave him and allowed the worst U.S. crime of the 1980s to go unpunished. A decade later, these same flock members would bleat “rule of law” incessantly demanding punishment for a president who was involved in an act of consensual fondling. The “opposition” party quietly cut a deal with the Reagan Administration and overlooked a premeditated, blatant act of treason. In the minds of Democrats, it was better to overlook a heinous crime than to allow the seeds of doubt in the system to be sown. “Dupe the dummies” is the common goal of both parties. Don’t let the people discover that their government is not just, honest or democratic.
When the American herd was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, herd members prompted by their alpha leaders said the attack was unconscionable, barbaric and criminal. When their alphas launched an unprovoked, unwarranted attack on Iraq in 2003 leading to the deaths of nearly 1 million people, the herd members were unable to see any fault, let alone a crime.
A concrete law of the herd is to follow the alpha mindlessly and blindly. The herd members are not comfortable with democracy. They prefer monarchs, autocrats, kings, dictators, tyrants and totalitarians. They claim this unquestioning devotion is patriotism. In reality, this loyalty is jingoism. It’s herd behavior, not human analytical response.
The herd behavior is strongest in times of fear. Fear activates and nourishes the reptilian brain. The most important tool of the dictator, oligarchy, nobility or other minority ruler or rulers is to activate the reptilian brain and keep it dominant. When “Godless Communism” collapsed in 1989, the rulers floundered around to find an “ism” to replace their best source of fear. It didn’t take long to find “terrorism.” George Bush’s primary job is to stoke the coals of fear. Every speech includes this “they’re gonna’ git you” drumbeat.
Fear lives unbounded in people who have not developed what is commonly called the conscience. The conscience exists in four general stages. The mature conscience is the most advanced. Those with a mature conscience are able to apply logic, analysis and reason to every situation. They seldom fall for fabricated fear dreamed up by their rulers.
The next stage is the retarded conscience. It swings between enlightened and primitive instincts. Fear easily moves it to its primitive state. Next is the atrophied conscience. It remains at the stage it was at birth. Finally, there is the deformed conscience. The deformed conscience is found in brutal, psychotic leaders such as George Bush, Dick Cheney, Adolph Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Leopold II and Joseph Stalin.
All normal brains, i.e. all but the deformed, can be reconfigured to function at the mature conscience level. This is a long and arduous process taking five or more years and must be after age 26. Thus, only a handful of people achieve the mature level in their lifetime. It’s no more than 8% of Americans. That 8% saw right through George Bush’s manufactured justifications for the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Bush’s criminal act of aggression will never be clear to the atrophied brain or the deformed brain. Those brains are incapable of comprehending that the 1 million deaths caused by the invasion is a far worse crime than the 3,000 deaths that serve as the pretense for the invasion of Iraq.
The mature conscience measuring rod tells us that humans are a long way from civilization.
Rush Limbaugh, right-wing radio talk show host and epitome of the authoritarian personality, once stated that all drug abusers should get an automatic 20 years in prison. When Limbaugh was caught abusing drugs, he quickly changed his high-mined attitude about punishment for drug usage. His listeners, who were devout advocates of his pre-larceny position, suddenly made an exception when their alpha became the perpetrator.
Ronald Reagan claimed to be a staunch defender of law-and-order. Then he was caught selling weapons to a terrorist nation, an act of treason. He went on television and confessed to the crime. His flock of followers fully forgave him and allowed the worst U.S. crime of the 1980s to go unpunished. A decade later, these same flock members would bleat “rule of law” incessantly demanding punishment for a president who was involved in an act of consensual fondling. The “opposition” party quietly cut a deal with the Reagan Administration and overlooked a premeditated, blatant act of treason. In the minds of Democrats, it was better to overlook a heinous crime than to allow the seeds of doubt in the system to be sown. “Dupe the dummies” is the common goal of both parties. Don’t let the people discover that their government is not just, honest or democratic.
When the American herd was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, herd members prompted by their alpha leaders said the attack was unconscionable, barbaric and criminal. When their alphas launched an unprovoked, unwarranted attack on Iraq in 2003 leading to the deaths of nearly 1 million people, the herd members were unable to see any fault, let alone a crime.
A concrete law of the herd is to follow the alpha mindlessly and blindly. The herd members are not comfortable with democracy. They prefer monarchs, autocrats, kings, dictators, tyrants and totalitarians. They claim this unquestioning devotion is patriotism. In reality, this loyalty is jingoism. It’s herd behavior, not human analytical response.
The herd behavior is strongest in times of fear. Fear activates and nourishes the reptilian brain. The most important tool of the dictator, oligarchy, nobility or other minority ruler or rulers is to activate the reptilian brain and keep it dominant. When “Godless Communism” collapsed in 1989, the rulers floundered around to find an “ism” to replace their best source of fear. It didn’t take long to find “terrorism.” George Bush’s primary job is to stoke the coals of fear. Every speech includes this “they’re gonna’ git you” drumbeat.
Fear lives unbounded in people who have not developed what is commonly called the conscience. The conscience exists in four general stages. The mature conscience is the most advanced. Those with a mature conscience are able to apply logic, analysis and reason to every situation. They seldom fall for fabricated fear dreamed up by their rulers.
The next stage is the retarded conscience. It swings between enlightened and primitive instincts. Fear easily moves it to its primitive state. Next is the atrophied conscience. It remains at the stage it was at birth. Finally, there is the deformed conscience. The deformed conscience is found in brutal, psychotic leaders such as George Bush, Dick Cheney, Adolph Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Leopold II and Joseph Stalin.
All normal brains, i.e. all but the deformed, can be reconfigured to function at the mature conscience level. This is a long and arduous process taking five or more years and must be after age 26. Thus, only a handful of people achieve the mature level in their lifetime. It’s no more than 8% of Americans. That 8% saw right through George Bush’s manufactured justifications for the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Bush’s criminal act of aggression will never be clear to the atrophied brain or the deformed brain. Those brains are incapable of comprehending that the 1 million deaths caused by the invasion is a far worse crime than the 3,000 deaths that serve as the pretense for the invasion of Iraq.
The mature conscience measuring rod tells us that humans are a long way from civilization.
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