Fascism and Democracy in the Human Mind
Subtitle: A Bridge between Mind and Society
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: May 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780803217966
Subjects: Psychology & Psychiatry / Mental Health; Mental Health; Psychology
First sentence: By fascism, I mean a philosophy of totalities and perfection and a way of thinking in certainties and absolutes, powerful intolerance for any differences of ideas, demands for conformity to the certainties and often a cultivation of mindlessness or no thinking or questioning; taking a position of superiority over others who do not believe or cannot qualify for full membership in the fraternity of believers, and the cultivation of cults of power even among the believers; a readiness, in fact often a love for doing violence and harm to all who are defined as nonbelievers or enemies of the certainty; and in the end denials of having done any harm to life - one's own or others.