May 29, 2023·edited May 29, 2023Liked by Josh Slocum
Really appreciate you guys putting out a show on a holiday weekend. Also, if you haven’t seen it before, here’s a link to a 1992 article in *American Heritage* by novelist John Updike called “Facing Death” (https://www.americanheritage.com/facing-death). (The link is to a reprint, which does not contain photos from the original article.) The article talks about the custom in late nineteenth, early twentieth-century America of posing and photographing deceased relatives—especially children. One of many interesting tidbits I found in the article was the following: “In rural isolation, the body had to be prepared for burial by the family. The front parlor of lower-middle-class homes was devoted to funerary rites; its association with death was so strong that a deliberate fiat of Ladies’ Home Journal around 1910 renamed it ‘the living room.’”
I read Altemeyer's book about right wing authoritarians (RWAs) over a decade ago but I recall he mentions that left wing authoritarians exist outside the scope of his study. I am now wondering how we could mirror his experiment, recruit some LWAs on a campus somewhere, and get some data.
Regarding LWA, I see that authoritarian attitude in most liberals I know. They want it their way or the highway. This comes out in the virtue signaling of being “vegan,” combined with the lecture about how much safer for the planet it is and that I am a planet hater if I don’t join in, the masking and vaxing (I am endangering the whole world with my selfishness) and on and on. I am a conservative person and prior to the LGBTQI+ madness, I was a “live and let live” sort of person. I would still be that way but for the push to damage children with the incessant indoctrination into the house of trans. Now, I am a “question authority” person and intend to pass along that trait to my grandchildren. Never give in, never give up. I might have that engraved on my headstone when I die.(There, I said the D word, LOL)
Really appreciate you guys putting out a show on a holiday weekend. Also, if you haven’t seen it before, here’s a link to a 1992 article in *American Heritage* by novelist John Updike called “Facing Death” (https://www.americanheritage.com/facing-death). (The link is to a reprint, which does not contain photos from the original article.) The article talks about the custom in late nineteenth, early twentieth-century America of posing and photographing deceased relatives—especially children. One of many interesting tidbits I found in the article was the following: “In rural isolation, the body had to be prepared for burial by the family. The front parlor of lower-middle-class homes was devoted to funerary rites; its association with death was so strong that a deliberate fiat of Ladies’ Home Journal around 1910 renamed it ‘the living room.’”
Thanks SO much, Josh!
I read Altemeyer's book about right wing authoritarians (RWAs) over a decade ago but I recall he mentions that left wing authoritarians exist outside the scope of his study. I am now wondering how we could mirror his experiment, recruit some LWAs on a campus somewhere, and get some data.
Regarding LWA, I see that authoritarian attitude in most liberals I know. They want it their way or the highway. This comes out in the virtue signaling of being “vegan,” combined with the lecture about how much safer for the planet it is and that I am a planet hater if I don’t join in, the masking and vaxing (I am endangering the whole world with my selfishness) and on and on. I am a conservative person and prior to the LGBTQI+ madness, I was a “live and let live” sort of person. I would still be that way but for the push to damage children with the incessant indoctrination into the house of trans. Now, I am a “question authority” person and intend to pass along that trait to my grandchildren. Never give in, never give up. I might have that engraved on my headstone when I die.(There, I said the D word, LOL)
Thank you for your directness, regarding death and everything else.
I really love your work, Josh, and appreciate your writing and podcasts.