Category Archives: Jordan Peterson

Nonfiction

1. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, narrated by the author (Simon & Schuster Audio)

2. Atomic Habits by James Clear, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio)

3. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey, narrated by the author (Random House Audio)

4. Breaking History by Jared Kushner, narrated by Sean Pratt and the author (HarperAudio)

5. Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins, narrated by the author and Adam Skolnick (Lioncrest Publishing)

6. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F(asterisk)ck by Mark Manson, narrated by Roger Wayne (HarperAudio)

7. We Never Die by Matt Fraser, narrated by the author and Alex Fraser (Simon & Schuster Audio)

8. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. van der Kolk, narrated by Sean Pratt (Penguin Audio)

9. 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson, narrated by the author (Random House Canada)

10. How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie, narrated by Andrew MacMillan (Simon & Schuster Audio)

Fiction

1. Verity by Colleen Hoover, performed by Vanessa Johansson and Amy Landon (Audible Studios)

2. Soul Taken by Patricia Briggs, narrated by Lorelei King (Penguin Audio)

3. Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover, narrated by Brittany Pressley and Ryan West (Brilliance Audio)

4. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, narrated by Cassandra Campbell (Penguin Audio)

5. All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers, narrated by Brittany Pressley, Karissa Vacker and the author (Random House Audio)

6. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover, narrated by Olivia Song (Simon & Schuster Audio)

7. Fire & Blood (HBO Tie-in Edition) by George R. R. Martin, narrated by Simon Vance (Random House Audio)

8. Regretting You by Colleen Hoover, narrated by Tanya Eby and Lauren Ezzo (Brilliance Audio)

9. Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter, narrated by Kathleen Early (Blackstone Publishing)

10. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, narrated by Alma Cuervo, Julia Whelan and Robin Miles (Simon & Schuster Audio)

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The popular author uses lessons from history and the experiences of famous figures to discuss a variety of successful strategies, power dynamics, and self-development for readers to apply to their own life.

You might be thinking that all of this sounds very intense and that a high-level politician or businessman would be a better fit for his work, not us everyday gals. However, after having read three of Robert Greene's books, I am convinced that women especially can benefit from his writing.

Our modern world is becoming more complex, changing at a rapid pace, and becoming more competitive and cutthroat on a daily basis. All this can make life incredibly confusing and difficult for women as society teaches us the fundamentals of life but doesnt provide us with the tools and social strategies to succeed and even protect ourselves in this ever-changing world.

The core of Greene's work is understanding power dynamics, which lay at the heart of social situations, relationships, and everyday life. Greene believes that everyone has access to power, even those who aren't politicians or business people. He says within every human being is a yearning to grow and improve as an individual.

According to Greene, all humans, whether they be men or women, must have some measure of control over their lives because were hardwired to want to grow and outperform our limits. In the end, we must hone our abilities and gain "power" in order to achieve whats most important to us. Power has the potential to have a greater impact and sense of self-direction on our lives and the events that revolve around us.

The more skilled you grow at wielding power, the more you will improve as a person.

Robert Greene says the more skilled you grow at wielding power, the more you will improve as a person and also develop the ability to have meaningful relationships. Ultimately, he says you can resolve disputes and establish more emotionally secure and balanced relationships by being aware of common power dynamics, which he explains in his best-selling book The 48 Laws of Power.

Ultimately, this book is an instruction manual for the various skills required to understand power dynamics. Greene presents 48 maxims for strategies to succeed in society, work, and other aspects of daily life in this book, with many of these laws based on his own life experiences. He gives examples of how each rule has been applied in the past, as well as examples of those who have disobeyed the rules.

This all may sound very manipulative at first, but Greene revealed in a recent interview with psychologist Jordan Peterson that he was not inspired to write The 48 Laws of Power for the purpose of trickery or manipulation, but rather for the sake of power ideals founded on logic and common sense, which can aid individuals in defending themselves against those who might try to take advantage of or manipulate them.

In his books, Robert Greene tries to make his readers understand that all humans have a dark side, which means that we all have negative emotions like envy, self-absorption, and the ability to harm others. But this doesnt mean that we, as humans, are inherently bad; it simply means that we should be aware of our dark side as rational, self-aware human beings.

In his book The Laws of Human Nature, Greene makes the case that were not always in control of our own behavior and are susceptible to forces that operate below our level of consciousness and come from deep within us. We can observe the outcomes, such as our thoughts, moods, and behaviors, but we rarely have conscious influence that genuinely affects our emotions and drives our behavior.

By mastering our emotions, we can improve our mental clarity and our ability to effect positive change.

Ultimately, he says we can become aware of our darkest emotions if we can step outside ourselves and recognize our flaws. For example, there may be instances where we feel compelled to behave in anger or rage, causing harm to others. He says that when we are angry, we dont analyze or act rationally; instead, we simply ride the feeling, and sometimes even blame others for our behavior.

Greene argues that if were honest and take the time to delve a little deeper, we will realize that the core reasons for many of our negative emotions, such as anger, fury, and frustration, are actually far deeper. He contends that if were conscious of these flaws in ourselves, we can change and break these destructive patterns. He further argues that by mastering our emotions, we can improve our mental clarity, self-awareness, and the ability to make positive changes in our lives and to the people around us.

Robert Greenes books are unconventional, unique, and most importantly, incredibly refreshing. His books dwell on uncomfortable truths about human nature, society, and the harsh realities of life, which so many of us are shielded from in our politically correct world. His work is carved out of historical texts and ancient wisdom, founded on truth, reason, and virtue, and for this reason, his books will without a doubt benefit women who appreciate these values.

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CRYSTAL FALLS Beverly Audrey (Noblet) Peterson, 82, passed away on Aug. 6, 2022, at the Iron County Medical Care Facility in Crystal Falls after a courageous battle with cancer.

Bev was born in Amasa to Edlor and Esther Noblet on March 5, 1940. She attended and graduated from Amasa High School in 1957. After graduation, she attended beautician school in Illinois, while living with her older sister Ruth Gustavsons family.

She moved back to Crystal Falls and married Donald Peterson on July 22, 1961, at the United Lutheran Church.

They moved to Charlevoix, Mich. for two years while Don was a teacher and basketball coach at the high school. They welcomed a daughter Chris while there, and eventually moved back to Crystal Falls where the family grew adding three sons, Brian, Bob, and Craig. Bev was a homemaker for many years raising her children before taking a job at the Crystal Manor working in laundry and housekeeping for 20 years.

Bev was a talented artist who loved drawing and painting during her retirement years. She loved spending time with family and was an outstanding cook preparing a feast anytime they were together. She always made time to play clinker with the grandkids, showing them how to have a good time with frequent laughter. She and Don really enjoyed traveling around the U.P. and Wisconsin, and they always made a point to stop at a nearby casino to try their luck and have a meal.

Bev was an active member of the United Methodist Church, performed with the choir, and a volunteer with the lunch committee.

Most importantly, Bev was a loving, caring and devoted mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, and friend. Her kind soul made anyone she met feel like a friend, and her smile and gift to gab will be missed by all.

Bev is survived by one daughter, Chris (Steve) Hebl of Maplewood, Minn.; sons, Brian (Lin) Peterson of Norway, Bob (Debbie) Peterson of Howards Grove, Wis., and Craig (Kim) Peterson of Richfield, Wis.; her sister, June of Powers; grandchildren, Erica (David), Tom (Shannon), Andrea (Nick), Cory (Hannah), Anna, Lyndsay (special friend Justin), Jordan (fiance Alli), Sara, Kaitlyn, Molly, Megan, Kyra, and Sadie; and great-grandchildren, Izzy, Brent, Ethan, Ava, Moriah, Oaklynn, and Cordelia.

Bev was preceded in death by her husband, Don; her parents; and siblings, Eleanore, Ruthie, Norma, and Edwin.

The family would like to thank all the doctors and nurses who cared for Bev during her three years fighting cancer. Special thanks to Brian, and his daughter, Andrea, for the unconditional love assisting her through those tough times.

Visitation for Beverly will take place Friday, Sept. 2, at Christ United Methodist Church, Crystal Falls from 10 a.m., until time of services at 11 a.m. Pastor Vicky Prewitt will officiate. Burial will take place in Evergreen Memorial Cemetery.

Memorials may be made in her memory.

Condolences to the family of Beverly Peterson may be expressed online at http://www.nashfuneralhome.net.

The family has entrusted the Nash Funeral Home and Cremation Services of Crystal Falls with the arrangements.

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There's a new player in the chicken sandwich game.

Wingstop is "calling for a breakup" between consumers and their current chicken sandwich choices by introducing their own signature chicken sandwich nationwide. The sandwich, which comes on two toasted buns with pickles, is available in all of the chain's dozen wing flavors, from lemon pepper to mango habanero.

"The nationwide launch of the Wingstop Chicken Sandwich is an opportunity to bring new guests to the brand by proving our position as The Flavor Experts, and reward our existing fanbase by putting menu innovation on center stage," Stacy Peterson, Wingstop's chief revenue and technology officer, said in a statement.

The sandwich costs $5.49, and a combo with a drink and fries costs $7.99.

The new menu options come as numerous fast food chains have rolled out their own chicken sandwiches ever since a food war began when Popeye's released their own sandwich in 2019. Since then, Burger King has launched its own, and McDonald's will test its chicken Big Mac in the US this year.

Wingstop said their release comes, "in a world of boring breaded sandwiches with only plain or spicy to choose from."

"Fans will be begging to split from their current and tired weekly 'lunch date,'" the chain added.

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As part of the release, Wingstop said people can write a breakup letter to their current chicken sandwich onChickenSandwichSplit.com. The first 100,000 fans to "make their split official" before Sept. 5 will receive a code for a free chicken sandwich.

"We're so confident in the product that we're incentivizing fans to split from their current chicken contender and find a new favorite chicken sandwich at Wingstop," Peterson said.

The launch comes over a year after Wingstop had its online Thighstop campaign, selling chicken thighs as opposed to wings amid a chicken shortage.

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This is absolutely appalling perhaps the worst advice ever, said Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., of actress Mindy Kaling recommending young women have their eggs frozen. Its wrong on so many levels.

In an interview with the teen fashion magazine Marie Claire, Kaling said paying to have her eggs frozen is the perfect gift for a co-ed home from college.

I wish every 19-year-old girl would come home from college and that the gift instead of buying them jewelry or a vacation or whatever is that their parents would take them to freeze their eggs They could do this once and have all of these eggs for them, for their futures.

Kaling had two children this way in her late 30s and rhapsodizes about the process: It was the best part of my life.

Morse noted: As Naomi Schaefer Riley, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, wrote in the Deseret News, Kaling forgot a few salient details. The procedure is iffy at best. According to the Centers for Disease Control, only about a fifth of these painful and expensive procedures actually result in a live birth. Other sources put the odds at closer to 11%.

And thats not the worst of it, Morse continued. It takes the father completely out of the picture. It makes single-parenting the ideal. It overlooks the reality that children raised by single parents are more likely to exhibit any number of social pathologies, from addiction to mental health issues.

At best, you have children raised without a fathers love and direction. At worse, you have another human tragedy. Is it fair to the child? Of course not, but in these situations, its all about adult desires. Children are a sideline to their story.

The best advice you can give a 19-year-old woman is to take her time and make the effort to find the type of man she will want to marry and have children with, Morse urged.

But, of course, in a teen fashion magazine, you wouldnt find such uncool advice.

The latest Dr. J Show features Rachel Mastrogiacomo, the victim of rape by a priest during a private Mass. Learn how Rachel was slowly groomed by this highly manipulative man, how she eventually overcame this trauma, and how she now uses her experience to help others who have been in similar situations.

Be warned that this interview is distressing.

Rachel was targeted for a slow, calculated grooming process that took ten months. I was completely psychologically overpowered by him. There was no way out, Rachel says. He convinced me that this was Gods will. That this was my duty, that my eternal salvation and my sanctity depended on it.

He weaponized everything. He had figured me out: the deep places in my heart that were wounded, Rachel says of the process. He told me I will be a bride of Christ and a spiritual mother to priests. He took everything that I really cared about and weaponized it.

Watch to learn more about grooming: what it entails and what to be alert for. Hear also how this now-laicized priest manipulated Rachels family and friends as well, normalizing his behavior so that everyone around Rachel believed he was a trustworthy man, even despite what she told them.

When Rachel broke the story years later by writing an article about it, many women reached out to her saying it was like they were reading their own story, that their abuser was following the same playbook. Theres something systemic going on, Rachel says.

Watch to the end to hear Dr. J explain something everyone can do to help their friends and loved ones dealing with trauma.

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Dr. Morse was interviewed on Helen Roys podcast, Girlboss, Interrupted, about her book, The Sexual State. Morse exposes the Sexual Revolutions toxic ideologies that are destroying families and society:

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We need to reassert the differences between men and women, Morse says, as well as the need of children to have a relationship with both their biological parents. Marriage is the only thing that protects the rights of children.

Watch the full interview here. Get your copy of The Sexual State here.

In a recent interview with Jordan Peterson on Dave Rubins podcast, Peterson applauded Rubins decision to manufacture children for himself and his male partner. Dr. Morse and Fr. Rob Jack discuss the inevitably tragic consequences of in vitro fertilization and other forms of third-party reproduction in this podcast.

Listen to learn why efforts to help people self-actualize are morally wrong and an attack on the intrinsic rights of children.

The Ruth Institute is a global non-profit organization, leading an international interfaith coalition to defend the family and build a civilization of love. The Ruth Institutes Founder and President, Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, is the author of The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies Are Destroying Lives and Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village. Subscribe to our newsletter and YouTube channel to get all our latest news.

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Mr. Galloway grew up in Los Angeles to immigrant parents. His father, a charming sales executive raised in Depression-era Scotland, had a terrible relationship with money, he said. His parents divorced when he was 9, and he lived with his mother, who worked as a secretary.

It was an enormous source of stress that we didnt have money, he said. It was also very emasculating. Mr. Galloway became obsessed with money, and bought his first stock (Columbia Pictures) as an eighth grader. He wasnt popular. I looked like Ichabod Crane with bad skin, he said. In high school, he ran for class president three years in a row, and lost each time. He also developed body dysmorphia, he said.

He went to college at U.C.L.A. and described his time there, in a not-entirely-convincing tone of regret, as a missed opportunity to be responsible. He joined a fraternity, rowed crew and gained 20 pounds of muscle. Quite frankly, my life changed, he said. All of a sudden women were very interested in me.

During business school at the University of California, Berkeley, he and a classmate started a firm called Prophet Brand Strategy, advising companies on how to build their brands. This being the early 1990s, their advice often amounted to: Use the internet. They attracted big clients, including Williams-Sonoma, Levi Strauss and Apple. In the dot-com boom, they started a series of companies, including an e-commerce site called RedEnvelope, where people could buy and send last-minute gifts.

RedEnvelope got an influx of cash from venture capital firms, including Sequoia Capital, but Mr. Galloway thought the new financiers were steering the company in a terrible direction. His battle to replace the board failed, but did attract the attention of hedge funds. They said, We like the cut of your crazy jib, he said.

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I did not know that Canadas former prime minister, Stephen Harper, read this column.

Such is, I suppose, the unlikely reach of Al Jazeera. I was unaware that Harpers reading tastes extended much beyond the ever agreeable opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal or the Jerusalem Post.

In any event, you may recall that a few weeks ago I devoted a column, reluctantly, to Pierre Poilievre, the jejune heir apparent to Harper.

The column was, I thought, a rather tame but accurate portrait of an ephemeral career politician who considers cheap, media-attractive stunts suitable substitutes for serious thinking about the serious challenges confronting Canada and the world.

Given the pedestrian subject matter, I was surprised when the column rocketed to the top of Al Jazeeras home page trending for a while longer than the usual lifespan of my weekly contributions.

So, thank you, readers.

Still, like all columns, some readers enjoyed my cheeky, if uncharitable, insights, while others did not.

The latter flocked, Im sure, like a pack of crazed hyenas online to find my Twitter handle, eager to vent their incoherent, phantom grievance-laden displeasure.

Disappointed, no doubt, to learn that I dont like most wise people who prefer to read, write or go for a walk rather than tweet have a Twitter account, the pack migrated en agitated masse to a not-so-secret email address where I can be reached and, happily, block irritating pests.

There, the pack confirmed that they share every juvenile aspect of Poilievres inconsequential temperament and intellect in an assembly line of anaemic messages that their authors confused with being cutting or pithy.

Sadly, I suspect the hot tub-wading, wannabe insurrectionists will descend upon me again and insist that I get out of the country with or without various parts of my anatomy after reading this missive.

Note to crazed hyenas and other easily triggered Poilievre fan-boys and girls: Im staying put in this lovely, B-movie country I call home.

Apparently, Harper was also moved to come to his protgs defence just days after my original column appeared.

Coincidence? I dont think so.

True to Borg-like form, Harper posted a dour one-minute-and-47-second video on his Twitter page shot in what resembles a funeral parlour foyer to endorse Poilievre as the next Conservative Party leader.

Looking as welcoming and charismatic as the exhausted director of the aforementioned funeral parlour on the cusp of retirement, Harper droned on for one minute and 47 seconds too long. More on his sad, perfunctory performance in a moment.

Like many of his predecessors, Harper promptly leveraged his tenure as a poorly-paid, but oh-so-well-connected prime minister to make oodles of money as an international consultant and a high-priced director of a slew of real estate and investment companies.

That Harper took less than two minutes from his lucrative, post-PM pursuits to back Poilievres candidacy with the energy of a dead battery is a measure not only of how irrelevant he has become, but of how cashing in is now the all-consuming priority.

Harper began his eulogy Im sorry, rousing endorsement by telling Conservative supporters who were able to stay awake for a little more than 90 seconds that Poilievre has garnered disproportionate attention during the leadership campaign.

Stirring stuff.

Im obliged to remind Harper and Conservatives touched by his touching rhetoric, that Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert have garnered disproportionate attention for years. No one outside what constitutes the seething, fanatical far-right cauldron of todays Republican Party would deem any of these to borrow a phrase bull**** artists even remotely worthy of praise, let alone qualified for public service.

I concede, however, that, long ago, standards for high office have slipped. Stephen Harper is proof of that.

Not done rousting fellow Conservatives from their midday naps with take-a-memo-like language, Harper described his effervescent mini-me as a strong minister who for the past several years has been our partys most vocal and effective critic of the Trudeau Liberals.

Translation: Pierre was a junior cabinet minister because I didnt trust him to be anywhere near the Prime Ministers Office, finance, or foreign affairs. Instead, I named the leader of the anti-science, anti-reason, anti-immigrant [Pestilent] Peoples Party of Canada, Maxime Bernier, foreign minister. OK. I and my many admirers in Canadas dominant Conservative-hugging press want to forget about that. Meanwhile, I had to quit in 2015 after an on-life-support Liberal Party led by a kid who beat up one of my hand-picked senators in a boxing ring walloped me too at the polls. Since then, the party has been reduced to shouting and performing click-bait-driven antics in political purgatory otherwise known as Her Majestys Loyal Opposition with Pierre earning the distinction as Canadas loudest and most obnoxious member of parliament. Winning!

Building to a stalled crescendo, Harper said that Poilievres habit of talking about the issues set him apart from the other banal Conservative leadership candidates, one of whom has bailed from the final debate since the party refuses to talk about abortion or entertain Alex Jones-like conspiracy theories involving the World Economic Forum.

The talkative Poilievre is irony alert skipping the last all-candidates debates, as well. Poilievre prefers to do his talking these days in a log cabin where, in a fireside chat without the fire, he tried and failed to convince confused viewers that reclaimed wood is a metaphor for lost freedoms.

More gripping stuff.

Poilievre doesnt talk about how and when those freedoms went missing or who lost them, but, God and Conservative members willing, hes determined to find them somewhere and somehow.

While hes out searching like an eager-to-please Boy Scout with a broken compass, most enlightened Canadians are preoccupied with the existential threat that the unfolding climate calamity poses to Canada today and tomorrow.

They understand that every decision made by a responsible prime minister with a scintilla of foresight and appreciation for why the urgent imperative to prevent if still possible the earth from burning up should inform every decision a responsible prime minister makes to address pocketbook issues.

Harper and his reckless progeny refuse, of course, to talk about that. Theyre too busy digesting the trite lessons of Jordan Petersons 12 Rules for Life to bother with British climate scientist Bill McGuires Hothouse Earth, which makes the persuasive case that by virtue of our denial, greed and complacency, we have passed the tipping point into catastrophe.

In the absence of a tangible solution, Harper recycled this hackneyed drivel in response to the seminal test of these perilous times. [Poilievre] is proposing answers rooted in sound Conservative ideas but ones adapted for todays realities.

My goodness.

The Conservative Party is the home of clich. Devoid of imagination or ideas, it is left to traffic in vacuous slogans and posturing, including standing with scientifically illiterate buffoons who are convinced that a life-saving, plague-blunting vaccine is the devils brew.

And yet there is hope.

If Poilievre becomes leader, he will be the third ex Darth Harper cabinet minister to have challenged the synonymous-for-smug Liberals in a federal election.

The two others lost and soon disappeared into obscurity.

Conservatives are either calculating that the third time will be the elusive charm or it may finally register that Harper and his clawing acolytes are a spent, anachronistic force.

Simply put for the simple-minded: Stephen Harper may have picked the wrong horse again.

The views expressed in this article are the authors own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeeras editorial stance.

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Is it just us, or are the Daily readers younger and cuter than ever?! To toast to our glorious new August issue, the Daily Summer and American Dream welcomed families to The Maidstone in East Hampton to join cover star Emily DiDonato and photographer Jordan Millington Liquorice.

The adorable day out brought together activations, activities, and games for the families in attendancea nod to how the spectacular New Jersey-based American Dream is all about fantasy, fun, and family. Kids (and adults!) enjoyed taking turns on a swing, posing by the flower wall, playing with flamingo floats, and face painting by Silly Cheeks Face Painting.

Meanwhile, adults mingled and met with supermodel and new mom DiDonato and congratulated Millington Liquorice on his all-pink fashion story, As pink as the day is long, which graces the pages of the penultimate issue of the Daily Summer 2022 season.

Guests enjoyed chilled glasses of Wlffer ros, refreshing Solento Tequila cocktails, and yummy granola from Toms Perfect 10. (Instagrammers will recognize the brand as belonging to Eva Chens husband, Thomas Bannister!). Meanwhile, music from DJ Isaac Likes kept things upbeat until the sun set over the pretty boutique hotel.

Among those in attendance were DiDonatos husband Kyle Peterson, Millington Liquorices husband PJ Magerko Liquorice, Sophie Sumner, American Dreams CFO Adi Adair and director of marketing and advertising Michelle Mancero, Luke and Melissa DiTella, Trisha Gregory, The Maidstones Jonathan Baker, Casey Fremont, Brooke DeVard Ozaydinli, Francesca Vuillemin, Greivy, Melissa Vale, Frederico Azevedo, Sue Jin Seth, Amina Kadyrova, and many more.

Peep the colorful fun belowand read the August issue right here.

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The Republican-MAGA movement's reactionary agenda is clear enough. But the deeper motivations of many Trump supporters, at least beneath their absurd and offensive stated beliefs, is much less so.

What we might call the Great Demolition plot includes establishing a corporate oligarchy, a neo-feudalist regime based on long-term minoritarian rule and a malevolent pseudo-Christian theocracy undergirded by state thuggery and social authoritarianism, all of it infused with an incoherent ideological blend of anarchic libertarianism (on guns and most forms of regulation) and fascistic nightmare (white supremacy, antisemitism and numerous grades of conspiracy theory).

Millions of Americans support this regressive and oppressive agenda, but their views are not identical or monolithic: There are the probably well-meaning but horribly misguided Joe and Jane Average, the bloodthirsty fascists, the apoplectic culture warriors, the scheming plutocrats, the uniformed sadists, the gun-radical civilians, the Christian nationalists and "Dominionists," the QAnon believers, the con artists and grifters, the conformists, the deeply traumatized and the profoundly misinformed. All understand themselves to be "patriots," of course.

Clearly, there is a wide spectrum of motivations, beliefs, personalities, interests and objectives, intensity of conviction and degree of lunacy among these mistaken millions. But how can one account for this herd-like descent into paranoia, cultish-nihilistic rage against reality, and proliferation of sociopathic behaviors? A general answer is that extreme beliefs bear little if any connection with the object they purport to discuss. They stem from complex and often subterranean interplay between biological forces (such as neural-hormonal wiring or gender), constructed biographies (whether individual or collective), economic interests, one's sense of belonging and social networks, and "belief formation," meaning the cognitive, affective and behavioral dynamics of decision-making.

What is behind crazy beliefs? Craziness, in one form or another. Crazy beliefs result from dysfunctions and toxicity that, in many individuals, generate unbearable anguish. A more specific answer, then, is that fear plays a central role in individual devolution and mass indoctrination. As Corey Robin points out, fear has a social history. It is a political feeling, the raison d'tre and oldest manipulation tactic of repressive groups and regimes. Many Americans suffer from fear, derived from multiple poisoned sources. Desperate and despondent, they lash out through nihilism, tribalism and rhetorical or actual violence.

Fear has been part of the human experience since time immemorial. From Howard Sackler's screenplay for Stanley Kubrick's 1953 film "Fear and Desire":

There is a war in this forest. Not a war that has been fought, nor one that will be, but any war. And the enemies who struggle here do not exist unless we call them into being. This forest then, and all that happens now is outside history. Only the unchanging shapes of fear and doubt and death are from our world. These soldiers that you see keep our language and our time but have no other country but the mind.

Britain and the United States, to cite the obvious examples, were able to develop generally successful and more or less democratic governments over time because powerful potential enemies were far away, while internal dissenters often emigrated or were crushed. Historically, this included Roman Catholics in the U.K. and anarchists, socialists, Black radicals and other political dissidents in the U.S. In America's case, two vast oceans allowed for safety from external invasion and also for considerable social, individual and ideological diversity. Yet after the traumas of 9/11, the war on terror, the Great Recession, the debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan and the COVID pandemic, Americans reacted as many other peoples have done before them, sliding downward into mass intolerance and violence.

That included the wholesale and largely unquestioned surrender of supposedly cherished freedoms through emergency laws and mass surveillance; extrajudicial kidnapping, torture and imprisonment; new forms of unconventional warfare (i.e., drones) waged against civilians and militants alike; and an enormous consolidation of power in the presidency and the executive branch. All of this went along with military adventurism, political radicalization and polarization, and an upsurge of magical beliefs and both mental and physical health crises, including opioid addictions, obesity and suicide.

After 20 years of mismanaged war in the Middle East, the U.S. finds itself in a situation disturbingly similar to Weimar Germany: disaffected veterans, militarized police, and right-wing radicalism converging with "mainstream" conservatism.

Fear is also inflamed through the national obsession with world domination, military power, militarized culture and gun idolatry. Historian Kathleen Belew, author of "Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America,"argues that each modern U.S. war was followed by a significant increase in domestic radicalism, white supremacy activism and paramilitary agitation. After 20 years of brutally mismanaged war in the greater Middle East, the U.S. finds itself in a situation disturbingly similar to Weimar Germany in 1919: With a relatively large and often disaffected veteran population (think of Timothy McVeigh), growing fascist penetration of the police and the military, increasingly militarized police forces, and armed militias (akin to the Freikorps in Germany) assaulting the legal-constitutional order. Right-wing radicalism has begun to converge with "mainstream" conservatism, fueled by a proliferation of entrepreneurs of chaos and the widespread cult of guns.

Fear also comes from the economy: Since the 1980s, economic survival has continued to demand more expensive degrees, longer working hours and greater productivity. Increasing financial pressure on individuals, families and communities has weakened the middle class by raising the costs of education, health care and real estate, and undermining wages, job security and organized labor. Americans fear exploitation and intimidation in the workplace, and also fear loss of status, health coverage and retirement pension. What's more, they fear each other, and not entirely without reason a factor that helps explain the proliferation of guns. (This is nearly identical to the classic "security dilemma" of international relations theory.)

Global economic forces subject Americans to the rule of the unaccountable one percent, the whims of the FIRE corporations (finance, insurance and real estate) and the condescension and pandering of their lackeys in both political parties. Workers tough it out while the masters of the new Gilded Age buy politicians, lawmakers, judges, think tanks, media outlets and experts; corrupt and exploit the skewed tax system; flout the law and the public interest (no major executive was incarcerated for the 2008 Great Recession); and corrupt the public spirit. To say that the system is rigged, as critics on both the left and right proclaim, is nowhere near adequate.

Abandoned by corporate Democrats, in 2016 the (white) working and middle classes turned in desperation toward an arsonist leading a gang of saboteurs. Their rage resulted from their dysfunctional context; their radicalization was a reaction against structural injustice. Their radical politics may be understood, in part, as a desperate reaction against despair. As Hannah Arendt wrote in "The Origins of Totalitarianism" about 1930s fascism, "the masses' escape from reality is a verdict against the world in which they're forced to live.... It's a protest against the real conditions of existence."

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Male anxiety and overcompensation have further befouled this witches' brew. Dominant models of American personhood, and especially manhood, are rooted in stereotypes of heroism, self-reliance, stoicism, greed, athleticism and competitive vigor, not to mention heterosexuality. Reality appears somewhat different, as the hard right is characterized by panic, emotional incontinence, unhinged rage and homicidal schadenfreude. (Of course I mean Donald Trump, but consider also Ann Coulter, Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Laura Ingraham, Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, etc.)

Archetypes of manliness are grotesquely distorted by far-right online "communities" of gamers, "incels" and white supremacists, and entirely too many women who embrace a cartoonish vision of masculinity and denigrate feminism. Anguished "conservatives" and "patriots" are incensed by women's progress, the evolution of gender mores and increasing acceptance of a wide range of LGBTQ+ identities. They are simultaneously insecure and arrogant, fragile and bellicose. Their aggressive bombast and misogyny only serves to reveal the compensatory role played by performative toxic masculinity in lessening their inner turmoil and re-establishing a vague semblance of psychic safety.

There is a continuum that encompasses run-of-the mill misogynists, "pick-up artists," men's rights activists, the online manosphere (e.g., MGTOW), extreme gamers, incels, incels who murder women, the alt-right, and activists and politicians who want to strip women of their rights. Male supremacy also feeds white supremacy, as white sexual anguish stokes racial anguish over Black men's virility and fuels the spread of the "great replacement" conspiracy theory.

This shared hostility toward women and minorities springs from recognizable sociopathic traits: entitlement, grievance, raging righteousness, cruelty, and social domination. Many are looking for father figures, authoritarian or even punitive fathers, for unapologetically dominant alpha males (John Wayne, Rambo, Trump, "Top Gun," John Wick) and models on how to be a real man (Jordan Peterson). In April of this year, Tucker Carlson infamously pushed an apocalyptic-messianic "documentary" called "The End of Men" that advocated "testicle tanning," or exposing male genitalia to red light, supposedly to boost testosterone levels, as a form of "bromeopathy."

In his 1897 classic of sociology, "Suicide," mile Durkheim argued that suicide was not a purely individual phenomenon, but was influenced by collective forces. A society that nurtures functional "little platoons" ( la Edmund Burke) and the sound social integration and regulation of individuals helps them cope with the rigors of life. When that kind of integration fails, the result may be what Durkheim called "selfish suicide" (individuals who feel disconnected), while deficient regulation may facilitate "anomic suicide" (when an individual lacks a sense of rules and meaning). On the other hand, too much integration, as in the military or cult movements, can facilitate "altruistic suicide" (self-sacrifice for the group), while excessive regulation may facilitate "fatalistic suicides" (in which someone breaks under the weight of rigid social norms). In other words, unbalanced forms of social cohesion produce specific pathologies. It's not much of a leap to conceive that American society, with its social isolation, incessant consumerism, endless commercial spectacle and social Darwinism, could produce all sorts of alarming compensatory strategies, such as the manic, cultish, bellicose energy of the MAGA faithful.

Indeed, the fear of death whether biological and social is the fear that underpins countless others. As anthropologist Ernest Becker showed in "The Denial of Death," individuals will do almost anything to lessen or forget this primal terror. Trumpers repudiate their loved ones, vilify reason and science, internalize outlandish lies and embrace servitude and mob rule. Cognitive dissonance, motivated reasoning, confirmation bias and amnesia are the ticket into the warm embrace of the tribe, which is both an extension of one's precious ego and a framework for security the basis of Abraham Maslow's pyramid of fundamental human needs.

Furthermore, terror management and grief processing are closely connected. Elizabeth Kbler-Ross famously identified five stages of grief: denial, anger, depression, bargaining and acceptance. Millions of Trumpers grapple with loss and remain stuck at the initial, pain-filled levels of the grieving process: "The COVID virus is a myth, I am in control" (denial); "Mask mandate is Nazism and/or communism" (anger); "Dr. Fauci stole my life" (anger and depression); "If I take vitamin D, I won't be affected" (bargaining). They take longer to move toward acceptance, if that ever happens: "I will wash my hands and keep a safe distance." David Kessler, a foremost expert on grief and close collaborator of Kbler-Ross, added a sixth stage: seeking meaning. But actual meaning can only come after an acceptance of reality. Delusional sense-seeking is what happens when individuals and groups short-circuit the process, skip healthy grieving and rush into compensatory worlds.

The fear of economic exploitation, violence, political sclerosis, loneliness and death is easy enough to understand. Yet another fear torments Americans: fear of freedom.

The fear of economic exploitation, violence and war, institutional or political sclerosis, solipsism and death is easy to understand. Yet another fear secretly torments many Americans: fear of freedom, or rather fear of the charges and duties that responsible freedom entails. Erich Fromm, in his study of Nazism "Escape From Freedom," explains that the rigors of freedom create considerable anxiety in many individuals, who seek to lessen stress through three mechanisms: destructiveness, conformity with (and submission to) the group, and seeking refuge in an authoritarian movement that seems to offers direction and meaning. Today, the mainstream, conventional American sense of self is self-centered, entitled and inauthentic; and therefore also insecure and hyper-vigilant, aggrieved and bellicose. An epidemic of narcissism and unmoored subjectivity that cuts across generations, races, genders, sexual orientations, classes and political affiliations has fed the current crisis. Irritable individual sovereignty, freed from any sense of responsibility, helps many Trumpers indulge their narcissism, intellectual laziness and conformity.

Indeed, willful ignorance is key here. In 1546, John Heywood, perhaps inspired by Jeremiah 5:21, wrote: "There are none so blind as those who will not see." Self-indulgence mixes with the old populist mystique of practical knowledge and vocational skills to feed the fear and hatred of analytical culture and critical thinking and the particularly demanding form of freedom it offers.

As Richard Hofstadter remarked some 60 years ago, anti-intellectualism and paranoia are American traditions embedded in the national experience. In his 1963 classic "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life," heargues that intellectuals and experts are viewed as "pretentious, conceited, effeminate, and snobbish; and very likely immoral, dangerous, and subversive" and un-American. Historically, the American glorification of the "common man" tends to feed demagoguery, favors the lowest common denominator and fuels self-absorption, religious fundamentalism and suspicion of the experts and other Others. It is Jacksonian democracy run amok. Mangled English and a smug ignorance (of science, history, the world, legitimate sources of knowledge) become evidence of one's authenticity (Trump, Sarah Palin, George W. Bush) and good character. Hostility toward critical knowledge is also a form of revolt against the Enlightenment, against an ideal of truth that demands questioning one's ego, one's limits, one's safety and one's world. This ontological insecurity feeds paranoia, which Hofstadter defined as "the sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy" that characterizes "more or less normal people" throughout American history.

Paranoia is found across historical time and space. Its American avatar harks back to medieval Christian millenarianism and end-time fantasies of destruction and salvation, which Norman Cohn describes as

the megalomaniac view of oneself as the Elect, wholly good, abominably persecuted, yet assured of ultimate triumph; the attribution of gigantic and demonic powers to the adversary; the refusal to accept the ineluctable limitations and imperfections of human existence, such as transience, dissention, conflict, fallibility whether intellectual or moral; the obsession with inerrable prophecies, systematized misinterpretations, always gross and often grotesque.

This portrait of medieval lunatics can be applied verbatim to contemporary QAnon believers, Christian nationalists and other "patriots." Trumpism is a charismatic, cultish and nihilistic mass movement that calls for destruction "for them" and salvation "for us." This helps explain why sadism, cruelty and sheer frenzy run deep in the MAGA circus: they bind the mob together toward mass cruelty and some apocalyptic showdown. Charisma replaces common sense. As Bret Stephens writes about the decay of moderate conservatism on both sides of the Atlantic: "Where there is sense, there is not much charisma; when there is charisma, there is almost no sense."

Trumpist zealots converge on style and substance, while their goals and deeper motivations remain diverse. Many Trumpers are not fearful at all, but arrogant, domineering and coldly conniving. Others the sour, surly, and surreal specimens whom Jordan Klepper interviews regularly demonstrate the truth of the adage that "there are limits to human intelligence but no limits to human stupidity." Others, like the morally flexible evangelicals, use the "Cyrus the Great" rationalization (Isaiah 41:2-4, 45:1-3) to proclaim that Trump, though imperfect, was anointed by God because he delivered their most cherished goals. Millions of others spurred by anguish are riding along in the bacchanal, serving as the useful idiots and shock troops for the Pied Pipers, princes and principalities (Ephesians 6:12) of Trumpistan.

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