Most research into the “authoritarian personality”, (if that is a real thing; there are doubts), concludes that it’s based on a terror of being abnormal, a fear of being cut out from the safety of the crowd. Fawning over bullies as a way to protect oneself and assuage one’s own self-hatred.
In extreme cases, they literally cannot comprehend being true to oneself. They imagine nonconformists as either “virtue signallers” or victims of brainwashing
Neil Kandalgaonkar /
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2024-07-29 19:35:07
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