Optional Reading
Chris Miller sent me a "have you seen this" one morning a few days ago, and being an obliging sort of idiot, I sent back a note a cup of coffee later -- "I just read the intro, now to Chapter 1". After a second cup of coffee and chocolate milk and breakfast for the Indians I wrote Chris "read chapter 1".
I'd other things to do. Work. Push Jonah in the swing. Walk with Jonah to a better swing with a longer chains and a flex seat. Make Jonah tell me words to get "more push". I read the last footnote.
I've put this up on the left-hand-side, in the "Wampum's Reading" block. As its Nezua's 18th birthday, and NTodd sent something for the kids that landed today at Jalama, and ... here it (the links) is as a post.
Bob Altemeyer's The Authoritarians
Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7.
If you read it, leave a comment. Thanks, and yes, you're welcome too.
Comments
The current Republican party and their supporters are very much like the proto-Confederates in the 1850s South. They are very fond of bellicose talk. They believe they are the true patriots, and those against them are the enemies of the nation. And so on. Of course, it was the Confederates who became the true enemies of the nation. Which is the path the Republicans are on -- they're not there yet, but are descending down the road to hell, paved with the usual stones. My wife asked me this morning, reading the paper, "Why does he [Bush] do this to me?!" (make her so enraged). My answer is "you are a patriot, and he is anti-American". The worst kind of anti-American -- an anti-American patriot, who will never in his life realize what he is or has done -- just like the post-war Confederates remained convinced that what they did was for the love of America.
Posted by: Robert the Red | March 7, 2007 09:50 AM
I'm looking for comments on Bob Altemeyer's The Authoritarians.
Posted by: ebw | March 7, 2007 10:25 AM
Well, now. I do appreciate that, I know I'm aging well and all but it's my 38th. Jeje. Not my 18th. :)
Posted by: nezua limón xolagrafik-jones | March 7, 2007 03:33 PM