Why Smart People Hurt. Eric Maisel

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СКАЧАТЬ social psychologists Daniel Levinson and Nevitt Sanford championed investigations of the authoritarian personality back in the early 1950s. They took as their starting point the Freudian model of the psyche and argued that a certain sort of punitive, rigid, and conventional upbringing produced a child, and then an adult, forced to control his roiling id with a punitive and rigid superego. They argued that certain traits arose from this particular and precise dynamism, traits that coalesced into the authoritarian personality.

      They concluded that the authoritarian personality comprised nine qualities or psychological orientations including anti-intellectualism, cynical destructiveness, a superstitious nature, and exaggerated concerns about sexual activity. Whether or not their model is accurate, the phenomenon can't be missed unless you close your eyes to it. We may not genuinely understand why authoritarian leaders and authoritarian followers come to be, but we are obliged not to act like we don't see them. They too are the fruit of this experimental model and are one of the ways that our brain is taxed as we try to fathom how to live in a world full of brains dreaming up ways to dumb us down, rule us in bed, and restrict our freedom.

      We are the sort of creature who not only needs to put up firewood and food for the winter but who must also predict the distant future, make decisions about who or what created the universe and what sort of principles and path we should follow, deal with our fellow difficult and dangerous creatures, and in other ways make sense of things that would overtax any creature. It is easy to see how we might have evolved into exactly this situation—and then be stuck here. This amounts to a really terrible stuck place: imagine a machine that, grinding away at jobs too hard for it, progressively wears itself down and, possessing no off switch, never gets a moment's peace off the line.

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