It’s rich that Adorno of all people, a member of the CIA Frankfurt School, would call me a liberal.
Ugh, but I hate Adorno.
Same, but Verblendungszusammenhang is such a neat word, and unlike all the other German words were people pretend they have no euqivalent in English, that one actually is almost untranslateable.
Verblen-what?!
What does that mean again?
lol
I think the best translation is “causality of deception” or “what makes one blind to wtf is going on”. It’s “the straight line that leads from the jollyness of the beer cellars to the human slaughterhouses in Poland”, the alcohol-and-marching-band fueled stupor of red-faced Weimar era chuds that allowed them to fully instrumentalize themselves as part of the nazi machinery. The ideological gauze they pulled over their own eyes. To give a modern example, reddit libs envisioning politics exclusively as a marvel movie is a Verblendungszusammenhang.
Oh fair.
That seems like a pretty good translation. The in-group/out-group dynamics that lead ordinary, boring people to commit atrocities, the effects of hazing on group solidarity but also group brutality, all that good shit. There’s scads of research on it, from analyzing how bullying happens to how genocides happen. We’ve got the same concepts in english, we just have to use a couple of sentences instead of gluing verbs together like we’re afraid we’ll run out of spaces.
Not at all coincidentally, i was having a lovely conversation about someone’s flight-simulator set-up when they casually mentioned that they were ready to fight the entire Chinese airforce, entirely unprompted.
Before anyone denounces me as a reactionary - The Greeks and Romans didn’t have nearly as much wild sex as people in the 40s thought they did. The Romans were pretty priggish about sex. And the disease one is just objectively true in an era of international travel and, well, Covid. It doesn’t have anything to do with racial or ethnic or whatever bullshit superstitious contagion. It’s just germ theory. Finally, Idk why “People are born to jump from high places” is supposed to mean. I think something might have been lost in translation.
Either way, here’s my score. I am the one true leftist.
Your Overall F Score is: 1.63 You are a whining rotter.
Scores for Personality Variables:
Conventionalism: 1.00 Authoritarian Submission: 1.00 Authoritarian Aggression: 1.00 Anti-intraception: 2.25 Superstition and Stereotypy: 1.33 Power and “Toughness”: 1.00 Destructiveness and Cynicism: 3.00 Projectivity: 3.60 Sex: 2.33
I think the “familiarity breeds contempt” thing might be projection on the test writer’s part. The phrase can be interpretted lots of ways but I always took it to mean that getting to know something or someone intimately breaks down the reverential view people often have of institutions and heroes. Often the results of tearing down that veil aren’t pretty.
“Nowadays more and more people are prying in to matters that should remain private” idk what the fuck this meant in 1946 but I don’t think the test author thought that people calling the police to examine other people’s genitals in public restrooms was going to be a thing.
Also, on the sex crimes ones, I reject the entire notion of punishment categorically, which probably wasn’t within the world-view of the author.
I think the “familiarity breeds contempt” thing might be projection on the test writer’s part. The phrase can be interpretted lots of ways but I always took it to mean that getting to know something or someone intimately breaks down the reverential view people often have of institutions and heroes. Often the results of tearing down that veil aren’t pretty.
IDK, my experience with the burgerland “middle class” has made me feel contempt for it.
Totes. It can, and often should, be taken literally at face value. There are a lot of extremely ugly people and institutions in the world that hide behind a benign facade.
Your Overall F Score is: 1.33
You are a whining rotter.Scores for Personality Variables:
Conventionalism: 1.00
Authoritarian Submission: 1.57
Authoritarian Aggression: 1.00
Anti-intraception: 1.50
Superstition and Stereotypy: 1.00
Power and “Toughness”: 1.38
Destructiveness and Cynicism: 1.50
Projectivity: 2.00
Sex: 1.00Wtf does “whining rotter” mean?
Congratulations. You are the one true leftist here
1.4, “You are a whining rotter.”
2.03
2.17, turns out I was a liberal all a long.
Failed I have, into exile I must go
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Adorno
I mean this in good fun, not a jumpscare, but this is becoming a personal running joke
READ LUKÁCS
Posting Adorno is shitposting you see
