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By: Review: In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog

Review: In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:58:07 +0000

[...] In the 1930s, numerous journalists saw that the conservatives’s “tool” Hitler was a wild man who would turn on his anti-Weimar, anticommunist patrons, but after the war a different narrative displaced it, facilitated by allies of the Roosevelt administration, as I have shown in numerous website blogs. Namely that Hitler, the crazed, failed artist and thug, had mesmerized the normally sensible and advanced Germans through the deployment of propaganda, spectacle, and mass media. What these propagandists had done was to deploy the “revolt of the masses” theme that had scared European aristocrats for centuries, but especially after the French Revolution. It should be noted that the Frankfurt School of critical theorists lined up with such social psychologists as Henry A. Murray, Harold Lasswell, and Talcott Parsons. (See blog http://clarespark.com/2009/08/25/preventive-politics-and-socially-responsible-capitalists-1930s-40s/.) It should also be noted that German intellectuals fought bitterly over whether or not the Nazi era was a deviation from German history or significantly continuous with German politics and culture, the so-called Sonderweg debates in 1986. It appears that Larson’s book, by featuring Dodd’s disillusionment with Germany, 1933-37, lines up with mainstream American sociology that continues to emphasize Hitler’s otherness and outsider status, even his possible Jewish blood (see http://clarespark.com/2009/12/13/klara-hitlers-son-and-jewish-blood/). [...]

By: Obama and the rhetoric of the political “family” « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:58:57 +0000

[...] First, on “family values.” Liberals today should stop for a moment and contemplate the massive changes in our political culture since the movements of the 1960s and 70s began their assault on the traditional family, an institution that for many signified protection and solidarity, notwithstanding such divisive emotions as sibling rivalry and flawed parenting strategies or bad examples (i.e., clinging mothers, absent fathers, deadbeat dads, etc.). The middle class family was held to be “a haven in a heartless world” and a bulwark against the State as Christopher Lasch famously wrote in his study with that title. The culture wars have been fought over the perceived decadence and/or dysfunction that “liberation” movements brought in their wake, and I have written about them here: primitivism, bohemianism, early adolescent sexuality and a frightening rise in teen age pregnancy. Add these rational fears to the propaganda churned out by social psychologists after World War 2, namely that fathers must stay at the helm of the family in order to avoid too strong an attachment between sons and mothers–an attachment that led straight to feminization and Marxist adventurism. (I wrote about it here: http://clarespark.com/2009/12/13/klara-hitlers-son-and-jewish-blood/.) [...]

By: Nazi sykewar, American style, part four « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog

Nazi sykewar, American style, part four « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:44:19 +0000

[...] Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival, and also in an article posted here: http://clarespark.com/2009/12/13/klara-hitlers-son-and-jewish-blood/. My published study of the humanities curriculum as managed by “progressives” from the Civil [...]

By: Perceptions of the enemy: The “Left” looks at the “Right” and vice-versa « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:49:48 +0000

[...] medical culture of postwar America. For more on the practice of psychoanalysis at a distance, see http://clarespark.com/2009/12/13/klara-hitlers-son-and-jewish-blood/. The importance of the father as leader and as commander of a tight militarized family unit with [...]

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Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:57:23 +0000

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By: Perceptions of the enemy « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog

Perceptions of the enemy « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:44:07 +0000

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