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Awesome paper about authoritarians

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/

When the authorities say, “Go get ‘em,” the high RWAs (Right Wing Authoritarians) saddle up. Who can ‘em be? Nearly everybody, it turns out. I started with a proposition to outlaw Communists and found authoritarian followers would be relatively likely to join that posse. Ditto for persecuting homosexuals, and ditto for religious cults, “radicals” and journalists the government did not like. So I tried to organize a posse that liberals would join, to go after the Ku Klux Klan. But high RWAs crowded out everyone else for that job too. Then I offered as targets the very right-wing Canadian Social Credit Party, the Confederation of Regions Party, and the mainstream Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. These were the parties of choice for most authoritarian followers at the time, yet high RWAs proved more willing to persecute even the movements they liked than did others.

Finally, just to take this to its ludicrous extreme, I asked for reactions to a “law to eliminate right-wing authoritarians.” (I told the subjects that right-wing authoritarians are people who are so submissive to authority, so aggressive in the name of authority, and so conventional that they may pose a threat to democratic rule.) RWA scale scores did not connect as solidly with joining this posse as they had in the other cases. Surely some of the high RWAs realized that if they supported this law, they were being the very people whom the law would persecute, and the posse should therefore put itself in jail. But not all of them realized this, for authoritarian followers still favored, more than others did, a law to persecute themselves. You can almost hear the circuits clanking shut in their brains: “If the government says these people are dangerous, then they’ve got to be stopped.”

posted by goolio @ 2010-02-24 21:02:01 (comments: 0)

Neon Genesis Evangelion

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Gainax launched a project to create a movie ending for the series in 1997. The company first released Death and Rebirth, consisting of a highly condensed character-based recap and re-edit of the TV series episodes 1-24 (Death) and the first half of the new ending (Rebirth, which was originally intended to be the full ending, but couldn´t be finished due to budget and time constraints). The project to complete the final episodes was completed later in the year, and released as The End of Evangelion. The End of Evangelion is an alternate ending of the series and retells episodes 25 and 26. The End of Evangelion replaces the Rebirth portion of the first film Death and Rebirth. The two films were compiled as a single movie (the way they were originally intended to be), called Revival of Evangelion in 1998.

On September 9, 2006, Gainax confirmed a new animated film series called Rebuild of Evangelion, consisting of four movies to be released in 2007 and 2008 originally. However, only the first film was released in 2007, and the second in 2009. The first three movies will be an alternate retelling of the TV series (including new scenes, settings, backgrounds, characters), and the fourth movie will be a completely new conclusion to the story.[18] The first of the new movies was released in Japan on September 1, 2007 under the name Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone. The second, Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance debuted in theaters on June 27, 2009.

Thats all I could find..

"Listen very carefully, I shall say this only wence"

posted by bart @ 2010-01-30 16:04:06 (comments: 2)

Finally someone to stand up against China

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/12/google-china-ends-censorship

Everyone's pussyfooting around when China is the topic of discussion. No government or company dares to stand up against them or simply only cares about the potential profits involved if they simply just do China's bidding.

Finally, after so many years, someone's standing up against China's disgusting censorship and control over the information their people can access. (let's not start about human rights and other criminal activities they perform year in year out)

Here is the link to Google's own explanation of events.

Unfortunately they already start to back down on their stand by making clear that the Google employees in China had no idea of this move, and state that it was a Google US executives decision.

Let's just hope that this is going to turn into more headlines and not just Google backing down again...

more nerdyness @ wordpress

posted by kwast @ 2010-01-13 01:06:41 (comments: 2)

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