Media, Information and Technoculture 3214F/G Lecture Notes - Authoritarian Personality, Authoritarianism, Massu Engira Masilamani
10 Oct 2013
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Ender"s game 3: tribal and racial survival, adorno"s authority, making me, breaking you, the commander"s paradigm, war crimes, tribal and racial survival. Silent enim leges inter arma (cicero 106-43 b. c. ) In a time of war the law is silent. War causes us to do things that are not likeable things, things we don"t want to do, wouldn"t like to admit doing. Only law that exists is natures law, dawrin"s law (fight for survival, between species in fight for a position, not strong and weak animal, but two strong animals. ) Genius (65) show us how to survive against others (265). Prepared to anything for survival, so in a time of war, there is no law, except natural survival: adorno"s authority. Authoritarian personality project, published in 1950, done in the us. How did germans who were so intellectual etc, how did this reasonable and rational people fall for hitler, who was enraged with everyone who wasn"t him, prepared to slaughter everyone etc.
