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Originally Posted by p310
that is exactly why I watch 'Circle of evil' and other stuff. I still don't know. Maybe some feeling of negligence. Maybe lack of purpose. Some people are naturally prone to subjugating themselves to something powerful. Not necessarily a genocidal maniac, but more like we see every day: becoming a boss's pet, defending party leaders at the cost of everything, some strange perception of honour that makes them hate. Just speculating.
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It's not really a sense of subservience as you seem to be making it (liberals can be subservient as well). It's a reverence for ideas that you feel are foundational to your culture to the point that you are unwilling to accept criticism of them. I'm pretty sure that there is an even more basic concept that this represents, but in general I think it's mostly pathological non-criticism of the status quo, which necessitates or is caused by defending a proto-utopian view of what the status quo was when it was at its perceived height. Something that makes the present feel like a continuation of a past that is still vital and relevant, because if the past wasn't on the right wavelength then we're living in a society of chaos that isn't predictable.
Yeah, I'd say that's more or less kinda it. A fear of a future that isn't built upon the predictable and comfortable building blocks of the past.