Adorno, Altemeyer, and Slater have conducted extensive studies of the mindsets such people, described a "authoritarians." Eisler has depicted their primary mode of relationship (and the societies that reflect this mindset) as "power over" vs. "power-with" others. She also offers a precise assessment of humanity's actual situation at this time: the reality, she convincingly asserts (and I am in wholehearted agreement), is that totalitarians and would-be totalitarians "still block our cultural evolution at every point today, aided by both old and new androcratic myths."
Ordinarily, authoritarians manifest the following traits:
INTOLERANCE OF AMBIGUITY
DICHOTOMOUS THINKING
RIGIDITY OF THOUGHT:
ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM
ANTI-INTROSPECTION
PARANOIA
ANTI-WEAKNESS
POWER WORSHIP
ETHNOCENTRISM
CONFORMITY and SUBMISSIVENESS
(For more details on these traits see my article:
"The Authoritarian Personality,"
opednews.com/articles/The-Authoritarian-Personal-by-Blair-Gelbond-Anxiety_Authoritarian-Personality_Awareness_Change-180727-884.html)
This is a perversion of the drive for power. The reality is that many indigenous cultures have sustained human populations for hundreds of thousands of years by embracing a partnership way of organizing their world. In this regard, these indigenous societies are more advanced than our current civilizations.
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