Stan SS> I think "The Authoritarian Personality"'s on that list because it refle= cts SS> poorly on the personality of many of those wingnuts who put it there. W= hen I SS> looked up Adorno's book on Yahoo, this is what I got: Yahoo> "Adorno's F-Scale now includes Fundamentalist Christians and others = not > originally categorized. Ah -- I see. When I read the book they weren't there, and I haven't kept up with the F-Scale. Yahoo>Only adherence to the F-Scale, which > brands all dissenters to a liberal catechism with the labels of racism and > anti-Semitism, explains the disdain of the media for conservative spokesm= en > and policies, that's wingnutty, yes! Yahoo>It is more than time that the assumptions of Dr. Adorno, > conceived in the heat of a terrible war and in the distress of his expuls= ion > from Germany, should be dragged into the light of day to be examined and > laid to rest in the name of freedom, justice, and truth." Well actually, though the Chalcedon mob wouldn't know it, Adorno (et. al.) has been subject to massive peer critique (see for example Christie/Jahoda,1954). But it was respectful and scholarly peer critique. And the discussion of authoritarian personalities has of course suggested that those on the Left are authoritarian etc. too (that's over-simplified, sorry), so much so that Milton Rokeach devoted an entire book to testing it out. (But a lot of people within academia, including some writing on this subject, don't seem to know the history of the discussion of _The A. P._ and the F-Scale.) Yahoo repeated>in the name of freedom, justice, and truth. I see they're fighting for the right to be authoritarian... thank you, Stan Judy Thursday, June 2, 2005, 2:50:33 PM, Stan Spiegel wrote: SS> Judy - SS> I think "The Authoritarian Personality"'s on that list because it refle= cts SS> poorly on the personality of many of those wingnuts who put it there. W= hen I SS> looked up Adorno's book on Yahoo, this is what I got: SS> "Adorno's F-Scale now includes Fundamentalist Christians and others not SS> originally categorized. Although Dr. Jerry Falwell is a supporter of Is= rael, SS> he is, nevertheless, held to lead an anti-Semitic organization. The Mor= al SS> Majority is considered, by believers in the F-Scale, to be obviously SS> fascistic. SS> The Adorno Theory, therefore, is all around us, and it seems likely to SS> remain for the rest of our lives. It may even last for generations, for SS> militant prejudice cloaked as intellectuality is one of the more diffic= ult SS> demons to exorcise from a nation. Only adherence to the F-Scale, which SS> brands all dissenters to a liberal catechism with the labels of racism = and SS> anti-Semitism, explains the disdain of the media for conservative spoke= smen SS> and policies, and the otherwise mysterious preference of advertising SS> agencies for the more leftist of publication choices. It also explains = the SS> reluctance of so many politicians to be associated with conservative SS> positions and groups, especially in respect to "social" issues. SS> It is more than time, therefore, that conservatives and Christians (who= are SS> not synonymous, and not always together on a number of issues) should SS> realize that they are tarred, and have been for a number of years, by t= he SS> same brush. It is more than time that the assumptions of Dr. Adorno, SS> conceived in the heat of a terrible war and in the distress of his expu= lsion SS> from Germany, should be dragged into the light of day to be examined and SS> laid to rest in the name of freedom, justice, and truth." SS> Copyright =A9 1981-1994 Chalcedon Report, P.O. Box 158, Vallecito, CA 9= 5251 SS> Stan Spiegel SS> ----- Original Message -----=20 SS> From: "Judy Evans" <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> SS> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> SS> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 1:51 PM SS> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Ten most harmful books... >> Wednesday, June 1, 2005, 5:11:45 AM, Stan Spiegel wrote: >> >> SS> I wonder what would make Rachel Carson toxic -- and Ralph Nader SS> unsafe -- >> SS> enough to justify including them on this peculiar list. Why, even Jo= hn >> SS> Stuart Mill, Friedan, DeBeauvoir and B.F. Skinner made the list, not SS> to >> SS> mention whatshisname who wrote the Origin of the Species. Including SS> him as a >> SS> runner-up really helps characterize the crazy people who put together SS> this >> SS> list. >> >> > mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html