Fanatics
From Arianna Huffington's Fanatics and Fools (I added the links):
Dr. Norman Doidge, professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto,has identified among the tell-tale symptoms of fanatics: an intolerance of dissent, a doctrine that is riddled with contradictions, the belief that one's cause has been blessed or even commanded by God, and the use of reinforcement techniques such as repetition to spread one's message.
Hmm, seems familiar somehow…
August 19th, 2004 at 6:04 pm
Uhh… Yankees Suck?
August 22nd, 2004 at 4:56 pm
I have the book in my living room, but I haven’t read it yet. I just finished Worse Than Watergate, which I’ll write about soon (it was good). Next is Paul Krugman’s book The Unravelling of America, then Fanatics and Fools.