http://www.endgame.org.uk/2008/09/has-american-society-gone-insane/ the only solution is a change of culture Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:36:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.endgame.org.uk/2008/09/has-american-society-gone-insane/comment-page-1/#comment-305 James Boyce Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:10:35 +0000 http://www.endgame.org.uk/2008/09/11/has-american-society-gone-insane/#comment-305 I agree and I have long thought about our society and the lifestyle it requires us to live in similar terms. May I suggest a look at Russell Jacoby's Social Amnesia and The Repression of Psychoanalysis. To me, these books and the social criticism of Chrisopher Lasch cover most of the issues concerning the health of our society and the ways supposedly 'non-judgemental' types get away with sweeping mischaracterizations of people they don't like: the main idea is not that pressure to conform comes from the right or left wing, but that it is an institutional or organizational tendency which has not been addressed since the propaganda blitz of the corporate-minded, post-1960's go-getters made conformity the end in the pursuit of cool. Barbara Ehrenreich has tentatively voiced some of my age-old misgivings ablout the use of seemingly objective/scientific terms such as 'positive and 'negative' to pass global judgements on people and ideas. I hope that we can rid ourselves of insidious cant-speak and the repressive mind-set it tries to conceal. I agree and I have long thought about our society and the lifestyle it requires us to live in similar terms. May I suggest a look at Russell Jacoby’s Social Amnesia and The Repression of Psychoanalysis. To me, these books and the social criticism of Chrisopher Lasch cover most of the issues concerning the health of our society and the ways supposedly ‘non-judgemental’ types get away with sweeping mischaracterizations of people they don’t like: the main idea is not that pressure to conform comes from the right or left wing, but that it is an institutional or organizational tendency which has not been addressed since the propaganda blitz of the corporate-minded, post-1960′s go-getters made conformity the end in the pursuit of cool. Barbara Ehrenreich has tentatively voiced some of my age-old misgivings ablout the use of seemingly objective/scientific terms such as ‘positive and ‘negative’ to pass global judgements on people and ideas. I hope that we can rid ourselves of insidious cant-speak and the repressive mind-set it tries to conceal.

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