January 28, 2009 6:48 PM
"And I thought, No, I'm not going to sit here passively and wait for it to happen. I wanted to go to "them," whoever "they" were, grab them by the neck, and get them before they could get us."DHS scientists, looking into the mindset of those who use terrorism, have focused nearly all their attention on one specific group. This group is notable for the way they behave when mortality salience is present. They behave almost as though they are somehow being rushed to make their decisions, thus the shortcuts and/or following a path that may actually do more harm than good given the lack of understanding of those they are involved with. They seem to be in a chronic state of anxiety, behaving much like what one would expect from those who must try and deal with a steady, low-level fear, with the"fight or flight" response always on a hair trigger, thus the violent and aggressive actions taken over matters that did not seem worthy of the deadly force used. So which group am I talking about? Conservatives of course. Or more specifically, right wing authoritarians and the 'social dominance-oriented' they follow unquestioningly (in that "RWA-SDO embrace", as it's known) http://www.wam.umd.edu/~hannahk/conservatism.html Now it appears we have a journalist who openly admits his decisions are strongly informed by the fear and anger generated by the WTC attack. Then there's the editor, the public, and the political hacks who are at present still quite clueless over who it is that initiates, perpetuates, and promotes highly damaging reactionary responses to problems m uch more complex that they are willing to acknowledge, or perhaps be unable to even conceive. GWB's presidency played out nearly every single symptom of this debilitating societal disorder. To continue tolerating them as intellectual or emotional equals of other subgroups within the population, will be to bring about our own destruction. Their denial of Global Warming is just one example of their willingness to destroy the planet merely becaused the idea is too discomforting to the way they prefer to see their world. And as far as Cohen is concerned, the big question then is... how could he find this trait admirable enough he'd openly admit it in his column?
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