Tending to Business

Tending to Business

Today, as never before perhaps -- given the genuinely apocalyptic threats unfolding around us -- Americans have an obligation to themselves, their families, and society to quit whining, stop comparing notes on who is more diseased, addicted, or dysfunctional, and just tend to business.

Steve Salerno - SHAM - How the Self-Help Movement Made American Helpless, p. 141

Dick Henthorn

16 Oct 2019

Demagogue

Demagogue

It is not hard to see how feelings of Victimization would make groups of people who share in a common form of oppression exquisitely susceptible to the demagogue: the politician or political activist who vows to level the playing field and win proper redress for his constituency. The demagogue consolidates his power by fanning the flames of your impotence. He plays to the paranoia of those who feel downtrodden and persecuted, which SHAM [Self-Help and Actualization Movement] counsels just about everyone to feel in one sense or another.

Steve Salerno, SHAM - How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless, p. 241-42)

Dick Henthorn

15 Oct 2019