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True Belief in its proselytizing march of death-dealing Destiny is especially perplexing to the reasonable, since it feels as if one is forced to relinquish one's own critical moderateness to do justice to True Belief's uncritical immoderateness.
How zealots and cultists smugly insist one extend to them the niceties of reasonableness as they bulldoze the niceties themselves!
Just look, for example, at the barking dogs of the Bush Administration amidst the carnage and wreckage of their dot-eyed corporate-militarist rampage and the way they flutter and wave their bloodstained white gloves as they call for "civility" from their appalled and incomparably reasonable critics.
I think it might be time to take down from the shelves again the many studies of authoritarian personality and authoritarian social formations that were written by devastated Europeans in the aftermath of WWII (Fromm, Maslow, Adorno, etc.).
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