Thoughts on conservatism
Thoughts on conservatism
Jun 18 2024, 9:46 PM
I was just reading this reddit thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1diqlb8/376_unreal/l95mlsf/?context=3
Cougardoodle The police started harassing [the unarmed woman who rescued her kids during the Ulvade School Massacre] and the community joined in.
For conservatives it seems clear that obeying their perceived social order is more important than saving their children.
This jives with Whilelm Reich's seminal works on the conservative mindset, which concludes it's primarily driven by anxiety based on fear of not having rigid social roles.
I am assuming the book being referred to is The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich.
African_Farmer Honestly this explains a lot. The need for religion, religious virtue-signalling, performative patriotism, rules for thee not for me, beliefs that the rich and powerful "deserve" their wealth and power.
All because they believe in hierarchies and that people should stay in their place, unless it's them personally moving up the hierarchy.
Curious_Fox4595 They need those hierarchies so much. There's some interesting stuff out there discussing how the power differential of the vertical system of Christianity forms the basis of how they think everything should work. It doesn't matter if the rules make sense or cause harm, they need to be followed, not questioned, or heaven forbid, changed. They come down from a higher power, which means you obey, and you like it.
Edited Yesterday, 7:12 PM by Clover.
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I was just reading this reddit thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1diqlb8/376_unreal/l95mlsf/?context=3
Cougardoodle The police started harassing [the unarmed woman who rescued her kids during the Ulvade School Massacre] and the community joined in.
For conservatives it seems clear that obeying their perceived social order is more important than saving their children.
This jives with Whilelm Reich's seminal works on the conservative mindset, which concludes it's primarily driven by anxiety based on fear of not having rigid social roles.
I am assuming the book being referred to is The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich.
African_Farmer Honestly this explains a lot. The need for religion, religious virtue-signalling, performative patriotism, rules for thee not for me, beliefs that the rich and powerful "deserve" their wealth and power.
All because they believe in hierarchies and that people should stay in their place, unless it's them personally moving up the hierarchy.
Curious_Fox4595 They need those hierarchies so much. There's some interesting stuff out there discussing how the power differential of the vertical system of Christianity forms the basis of how they think everything should work. It doesn't matter if the rules make sense or cause harm, they need to be followed, not questioned, or heaven forbid, changed. They come down from a higher power, which means you obey, and you like it.
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