Salty Current

I’ve been reading the Herman Cain Awards subreddit : “Nominees have made public declaration of their anti-mask, anti-vax, or Covid-hoax vie...

I don’t know why Blogger didn’t post the items in my series in the order in which I published them, but here’s the complete series:  1. “The...

As with his portrayal of the causes of his followers’ discontent, the agitator’s image of their opponents differs fundamentally from how pol...

If we strip the agitator's message of its mystical grandiloquence and rhetoric, and present it in a rationally formulated version, we ar...

So the agitator’s followers think they’re in on the game, but, like so many targets of a con, they’re victims even while they’re co-conspira...

The self-portrait of the agitator may seem a little ridiculous. …Yet contemporary history teaches us that this apparently ridiculous braggar...

Of all agitational themes, those which might be described as programmatic are the least well-developed. (90) Now we come to the third the...

I’m contemplating blogging the chapters of journalist William L. Shirer’s epic 1959 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich as part of my aut...

This is a remarkable piece. …That violación. Not enough pages in the world to describe what it did to me. The whole planet could be my ink...

From The Dodo:

Every time I see it I imagine someone from a culture in which old people are treated with respect and dignity watching this neoliberal ni...

This post officially kicks off my series on authoritarianism. It begins to respond to several psychological and psycho-social questions: Wh...