The Social Pathologist

The Diseases of Modern Life as seen through the Secular Confessional

Monday, September 26, 2011

Stenosophism: Short term smart, long term stupid.

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One of the findings in Dorner's book is that human beings seem to have a hard time recognising temporal relationships. Causal relationsh...
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Sunday, September 18, 2011

The Logic of Failure.

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Let me first begin by saying that this is a very good book, not for its writing style but for the scientific data it presents with regard to...
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Monday, September 12, 2011

Unintended Economic Consequences.

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From the book Before the Deluge: A portrait of Berlin in the 1920's. The survivors smile now at the madness of 1923[ Ed: Wiemar Hyperi...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Whittaker Chambers: Epilogue.

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Whittaker Chambers died in 1961, never completing his epilogue to Witness. After his death, his wife and his friend Duncan Norton-Taylor, ...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Whittaker Chambers: The Cancer Eating the West.

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(Some explanatory notes. Chambers considered Socialism, Leftism of any kind and Communism to be essentially the same ideologies, differing...
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Friday, August 26, 2011

Whittaker Chambers: The failure of Conservatism.

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( Germany's children are starving, 1924. Kathe Kollwitz) In the years when Communism was advancing successfully against the West there...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Whittaker Chambers. Conservatism in the Age of Machines.

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September 1954 Dear Willi: History tells me that the rock-core of the Conservative Position, or any fragment of it, can be held realist...
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Monday, August 22, 2011

Whittaker Chambers: The Dying West.

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For some must at last have eyes to see the plain fact that the revolutionary proletariat in the West (including Russia) is not, and never ha...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

The Enemy Ourselves

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August 5, 1954 Dear Bill: I no longer believe that political solutions are possible for us. I am baffled by the way people still speak ...
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Monday, August 15, 2011

Tarawa

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March 2, 1954 Dear Dunc: Let's talk about the article on the Conservative Position. I do not see how you could be anything but dist...
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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Fault Lines. Part II

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In the previous post commentator JMSmith made the following comment. He was, as I recall from Witness, and as these passages seem to confi...
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Friday, August 12, 2011

The Dry Well.

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Whittaker Chambers was both religious and conservative in his youth. In Cold Friday he describes his experience of Columbia University in t...
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Monday, August 08, 2011

How the West was Lost.

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Whittaker Chambers suffered from Heart disease and this following passage was written whilst in hospital recovering from a heart attack. As ...
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