Thanks to what one learns from reading the recently published book titled "The Psychology of Totalitarianism" and whose author is the professor of clinical psychology Mattias Desmet, we have a scientifically based understanding of a precursor to totalitarian rule over us. This is for a large group of the citizens of our country to mistake one or more "complex" physical systema for "non-complex” physical systems in the construction of models of these systems, where a "complex" physical system exhibits one or more "emergent properties," each of which is a property of the whole system and not of the separate parts of this system whereas a "non-complex" physical system exhibits no such properties. Thus, by the definition of terms,, the subset voters who make this mistake are the ones who are progressives. For they are the only kind of people who mistake “complex” for “non-complex” physical systems.
The Thinking on the part of a large subset of voters that is a Precursor to Totalitarian Rule Over Us
By
Terry Oldberg
Engineer/Scientist/Public Policy Researcher
Los Altos Hills, California 94022
650-518-6636 (mobile)
Terry_oldberg@yahoo.com
Thanks to what one learns from reading the recently published book titled "The Psychology of Totalitarianism" and whose author is the professor of clinical psychology Mattias Desmet, we have a scientifically based understanding of a precursor to totalitarian rule over us. This is for a large group of the citizens of our country to mistake one or more "complex" physical systema for "non-complex” physical systems in the construction of models of these systems, where a "complex" physical system exhibits one or more "emergent properties," each of which is a property of the whole system and not of the separate parts of this system whereas a "non-complex" physical system exhibits no such properties. Thus, by the definition of terms,, the subset voters who make this mistake are the ones who are progressives. For they are the only kind of people who mistake “complex” for “non-complex” physical systems.