Alan: In the above meme, Hoffer cuts to the quick of contemporary American "conservatism" - and its bizarre apotheosis in Donald Trump.
Eric Hoffer
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Eric Hoffer On The Indispensable Importance Of Compassion
"Absolute Faith Corrupts As Absolutely As Absolute Power," Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer: Weakling Resentment Springs From Their Sense Of Inadequacy/Impotence
"There Is Neither Nobility, Nor Kindness Nor Uplift In Trump's America"
Christianity: A Compendium Of "What Went Wrong" And Current Worship Of The Wrongness
"Nothing Makes Us Stupider Than Anger"
San Francisco Stevedore Eric Hoffer, Greatest Autodidact Of The 20th Century: Quotations
Homo Sapiens' Ability To Deceive Itself: The Tea Party, The Freedom Caucus, "The Republican Clown Car/Shitshow/Dumpster Fire," Maimonides, Eric Hoffer, Wendell Berry. (...An Elaboration Of An Essay By History Professor Heather Cox Richardson)
"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice. The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization. We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal. Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good. The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.” "Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton
Fr. Thomas Merton Explains -- In 16 Words -- Why "Christian" "Conservatives" Are Always Wrong
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S. F. Stevedore, Eric Hoffer
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The True Believer
Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
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S. F. Stevedore, Eric Hoffer
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The True Believer
Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
A free PDF of the entire text
Compendium: Christian Conservatism, Biblical Literalism And The Unique Hatred Of Yahweh's Command That ALL Men In Any Town Where Rebellious Children Live, MUST Stone Them To Death
As Lao Tzu observed 2500 years ago, "The profoundest truths are paradoxical."
And so, to the extent that there is truth in the following article's postulate that Hoffer was an admonitory critic of "the left," it is also transcendentally true that Hoffer's work is, at bottom, a bewildered crie du couer that Tumpism could have come into our world after the strident warning issued by Adolf Hitler's Nazism and the global devastation of World War II.
Eric Hoffer: The Right's Working-Class Philosopher
Jacobin Magazine
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