The Social Pathologist

The Diseases of Modern Life as seen through the Secular Confessional

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Commissar

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Jason Richwine recently put up a rather good post over at Politico.  Why can't we talk about IQ should really be titled Why cant we t...
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Wednesday, August 07, 2013

The Biological Vote.

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As mentioned in our previous post, most people tend to be Cognitive Misers. i.e. System 1 thinkers. It's important to point out, how...
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Friday, August 02, 2013

Half-wit.

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Gasset wasn't the first to notice the phenomenon of mass-man. Marx recognised his type in the lumpen-proletariat and Mencken saw his...
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Revolt of the Masses: Epilogue.

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What fundamentally weakens Gasset's book is Gasset's own philosophical system; which, despite his accurate analysis of the problem...
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Friday, July 26, 2013

Revolt of the Masses:IV

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Gasset's book loses steam after about mid-point and the devotes the rest of this book to the subject of the state, the cultural leadersh...
Monday, July 22, 2013

Revolt of the Masses. III

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Whenever I propose to limit the franchise to a competent minority,  people immediately assume that I wish to restrict the vote to what are...
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Saturday, July 20, 2013

The Revolt of the Massess:II

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For Gasset, the decline in European Civilisation is attributed to the rise in the influence of a new type of man in history: mass-man.  A...
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Thursday, July 18, 2013

The Revolt of the Masses: I

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A book I've been meaning to write about for a while now is Ortega y Gasset's* , Revolt of the Masses. It caused quite a stir when...
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Monday, July 15, 2013

The Zimmerman Verdict: Evidence of the Croatia effect.

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In order to understand the black and liberal community outrage to the Zimmerman verdict it's best to take ourselves back to that bastion...
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Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Some Thoughts on Aesthetics.

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Recently, Roosh V put up a post on beauty which got me thinking of an article I read recently. But before I get to that, I want to put down...
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Sunday, June 30, 2013

Rachael Jeantel: Voter.

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As I've argued in my previous posts, one of the great problems with modern democracy is that political power is placed into the hands of...
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