Saturday, January 13, 2007

Reprise of a Stolen Idea, January 2006

A great idea of of Gagdad Bob's, reprinted from a year ago.

Excerpt:
The second post notes similarities between the more extreme pronouncements of the left, so hyperbolic as to be disconnected from observable events, and the crisis cults known to have developed in societies under enormous pressure, such as the Native American Ghost Dance, and the Cargo Cult. Otherwise reasonable and functional people co-develop a set of magical beliefs in an attempt to explain change. He cites as a modern example a fevered essay in the Huffington Post which likens the Bush administration to Medusa.
(continue reading here)

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