1. imperialism 2. colony 3. social darwinism 4. civilize 5. superior 6. barbaric 7. empire9/22/2023 As Steven Pinker wrote in BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE, the Pop-Rousseau-ist philosophy of New Society and Counterculture led to much social disruption and political disillusionment. Woodstock and Altamont concerts got a bit crazy, and the BAD NEWS BEARS slovenliness of the 1970s certainly didn’t do much for the human spirit. How could you control such lunacy? And in the 1960s, when youth culture was getting out of hand, even liberals began to wonder if Western Civilization was going to pot. After all, imagine if people were like wild animals throwing tantrums like children. Such a gambit sounds counter-intuitive since people who act like childish animals are surely out-of-control and harder to manage. Paradoxically, control over the masses can be made more effective through animilzation and infantilization.
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