A 'survey' of 'racism' and 'intollerance' has found that the peacefull and middle clbutt North Shore suburb of Sydney "Mosman" is supposedly Sydney's most intollerant and racist. (this despite its exceptionaly low crime rate and clearly well to do people and frankly fairly diverse neighbourhood).
It's important to realise that these surveys have a purpose beyond simple and pure knowlege. They are designed to support particular social objectives and the qestions they ask are slanted to detect deviations from those social objectives. Invariably in Australia or North America they pathologise the host caucasian culture. Never mind that the people that they survey simply want to live their lives, are honest and have harmed no one. The people in Mosman are just live let live anglo-celt-europeans who want to live their culture as it is. This isn't 'welcoming' enough anymore for the profesional tollerance commisars.
Once the ethno-marxist researcher has produced the requisite survey which invariably concludes a certain proportion of racism-xenophobia-intollerance-authorianism personality exists (ie between 20% and up) and buttignates truckloads of 'shame' he or she will seek funding (lucrative careers in this area as their is a continious flow of funding) to conduct lots of social engineering: this involves lots of brain washing and shaming of kids at school, heaps of negative advertising and most despicably attacks on "racist symbols". (Racist symbols can range from the aussie flag to busts of Captain Cook or anything in history books about White males (Generally White females are left alone for now perhaps in the hope that they will not be roused or even join in a sort of self flagelation of their own history and culture). The surveys never look at racist, hostile, xenophobic or negative atbreastudes amongst any othergroup. They have one target that they will hound to the end.
I've included an article from The Australian at the end of this article
The Frankfurt School and "Political Correctness" exerpts from The New Dark Age by Michael J. Minnicino (Well worth reading the whole article in the above link)
III. Creating "Public Opinion": The "Authoritarian Personality" Bogeyman and the OSS
The efforts of the Radio Project conspirators to manipulate the population, spawned the modern pseudoscience of public opinion polling, in order to gain greater control over the methods they were developing.
Today, public opinion polls, like the television news, have been completely integrated into our society. A "scientific survey" of what people are said to think about an issue can be produced in less than twenty-four hours. Some campaigns for high political office are completely shaped by polls; in fact, many politicians try to create issues which are themselves meaningless, but which they know will look good in the polls, purely for the purpose of enhancing their image as "popular." Important policy decisions are made, even before the actual vote of the citizenry or the legislature, by poll results. Newspapers will occasionally write pious editorials calling on people to think for themselves, even as the newspaper's business agent sends a check to the local polling organization. The idea of "public opinion" is not new, of course. Plato spoke against it in his Republic over two millenia ago; Alexis de Tocqueville wrote at length of its influence over America in the early nineteenth century. But, nobody thought to measure public opinion before the twentieth century, and nobody before the 1930's thought to use those measurements for decision-making.
It is useful to pause and reflect on the whole concept. The belief that public opinion can be a determinant of truth is philosophically insane. It precludes the idea of the rational individual mind. Every individual mind contains the divine spark of reason, and is thus capable of scientific discovery, and understanding the discoveries of others. The individual mind is one of the few things that cannot, therefore, be "averaged." Consider: at the moment of creative discovery, it is possible, if not probable, that the scientist making the discovery is the only person to hold that opinion about nature, whereas everyone else has a different opinion, or no opinion. One can only imagine what a "scientifically-conducted survey" on Kepler's model of the solar system would have been, shortly after he published the Harmony of the World: 2% for, 48% against, 50% no opinion.
These psychoanalytic survey techniques became standard, not only for the Frankfurt School, but also throughout American social science departments, particularly after the I.S.R. arrived in the United States. The methodology was the basis of the research piece for which the Frankfurt School is most well known, the "authoritarian personality" project. In 1942, I.S.R. director Max Horkheimer made contact with the American Jewish Committee, which asked him to set up a Department of Scientific Research within its organization. The American Jewish Committee also provided a large grant to study anti-Semitism in the American population. "Our aim," wrote Horkheimer in the introduction to the study, "is not merely to describe prejudice, but to explain it in order to help in its eradication.... Eradication means reeducation scientifically planned on the basis of understanding scientifically arrived at."
The A-S Scale
Ultimately, five volumes were produced for this study over the course of the late 1940's; the most important was the last, The Authoritarian Personality, by Adorno, with the help of three Berkeley, California social psychologists. In the 1930's Erich Fromm had devised a questionnaire to be used to analyze German workers pychoanalytically as "authoritarian," "revolutionary" or "ambivalent." The heart of Adorno's study was, once again, Fromm's psychoanalytic scale, but with the positive end changed from a "revolutionary personality," to a "democratic personality," in order to make things more palatable for a postwar audience. Nine personality traits were tested and measured, including:
conventionalism--rigid adherence to conventional, middle-clbutt value
authoritarian aggression--the tendency to be on the look-out for, to condemn, reject and punish people who violate conventional value
projectivity--the disposition to believe that wild and dangerous things go on in the world.
(ethnocentrism), the PEC Scale (poltical and economic conservatism), the A-S Scale (anti-Semitism), and the F Scale (fascism). Using Rensis Lickerts's methodology of weighting results, the authors were able to tease together an empirical definition of what Adorno called "a new anthropological type," the authoritarian personality. The legerdemain here, as in all psychoanalytic survey work, is the buttumption of a Weberian "type." Once the type has been statistically determined, all behavior can be explained; if an anti-Semitic personality does not act in an anti-Semitic way, then he or she has an ulterior motive for the act, or is being discontinuous. The idea that a human mind is capable of transformation, is ignored. The results of this very study can be interpreted in diametrically different ways. One could say that the study proved that the population of the U.S. was generally conservative, did not want to abandon a capitalist economy, believed in a strong family and that loveual promiscuity should be punished, thought that the postwar world was a dangerous place, and was still suspicious of Jews (and Blacks, Roman Catholics, Orientals, etc. -- unfortunately true, but correctable in a social context of economic growth and cultural optimism). On the other hand, one could take the same results and prove that anti-Jewish pogroms and Nuremburg rallies were simmering just under the surface, waiting for a new Hitler to ignite them. Which of the two interpretations you accept is a political, not a scientific, decision. Horkheimer and Adorno firmly believed that all religions, Judaism included, were "the opiate of the mbuttes." Their goal was not the protection of Jews from prejudice, but the creation of a definition of authoritarianism and anti-Semitism which could be exploited to force the "scientifically planned reeducation" of Americans and Europeans away from the principles of Judeo- Christian civilization, which the Frankfurt School despised. In their theoretical writings of this period, Horkheimer and Adorno pushed the thesis to its most paranoid: just as capitalism was inherently fascistic, the philosophy of Christianity itself is the source of anti-Semitism. As Horkheimer and Adorno jointly wrote in their 1947 "Elements of Anti-Semitism": Christ, the spirit become flesh, is the deified sorcerer. Man's self- reflection in the absolute, the humanization of God by Christ, is the proton pseudos original falsehood. Progress beyond Judaism is coupled with the buttumption that the man Jesus has become God. The reflective aspect of Christianity, the intellectualization of magic, is the root of evil. At the same time, Horkheimer could write in a more-popularized article breastled "Anti-Semitism: A Social Disease," that "at present, the only country where there does not seem to be any kind of anti-Semitism is Russia"!.
This self-serving attempt to maximize paranoia was further aided by Hannah Arendt, who popularized the authoritarian personality research in her widely-read Origins of Totalitarianism. Arendt also added the famous rhetorical flourish about the "banality of evil" in her later Eichmann in Jerusalem: even a simple, shopkeeper-type like Eichmann can turn into a Nazi beast under the right psychological circumstances--every Gentile is suspect, psychoanalytically.
It is Arendt's extreme version of the authoritarian personality thesis which is the operant philosophy of today's Cult Awareness Network (CAN), a group which works with the U.S. Justice Department and the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith, among others. Using standard Frankfurt School method, CAN identifies political and religious groups which are its political enemies, then re-labels them as a "cult," in order to justify operations against them. (See box.)
The Public Opinion Explosion
Despite its unprovable central thesis of "psychoanalytic types," the interpretive survey methodology of the Frankfurt School became dominant in the social sciences, and essentially remains so today. In fact, the adoption of these new, supposedly scientific techniques in the 1930's brought about an explosion in public-opinion survey use, much of it funded by Madison Avenue. The major pollsters of today--A.C. Neilsen, George Gallup, Elmo Roper--started in the mid-1930's, and began using the I.S.R. methods, especially given the success of the Stanton-Lazersfeld Program Analyzer. By 1936, polling activity had become sufficiently widespread to justify a trade buttociation, the American Academy of Public Opinion Research at Princeton, headed by Lazersfeld; at the same time, the University of Chicago created the National Opinion Research Center. In 1940, the Office of Radio Research was turned into the Bureau of Applied Social Research, a division of Columbia University, with the indefatigable Lazersfeld as director.
After World War II, Lazersfeld especially pioneered the use of surveys to psychoanalyze American voting behavior, and by the 1952 Presidential election, Madison Avenue advertising agencies were firmly in control of Dwight Eisenhower's campaign, utilizing Lazersfeld's work. Nineteen fifty-two was also the first election under the influence of television, which, as Adorno had predicted eight years earlier, had grown to incredible influence in a very short time. Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne -- the fabled "BBD&O" ad agency--designed Ike's campaign appearances entirely for the TV cameras, and as carefully as Hitler's Nuremberg rallies; one-minute "spot" advertisements were pioneered to cater to the survey-determined needs of the voters.
This snowball has not stopped rolling since. The entire development of television and advertising in the 1950's and 1960's was pioneered by men and women who were trained in the Frankfurt School's techniques of mbutt alienation. Frank Stanton went directly from the Radio Project to become the single most-important leader of modern television. Stanton's chief rival in the formative period of TV was NBC's Sylvester "Pat" Weaver; after a Ph.D. in "listening behavior," Weaver worked with the Program Analyzer in the late 1930's, before becoming a Young & Rubicam vice-president, then NBC's director of programming, and ultimately the network's president. Stanton and Weaver's stories are typical. Today, the men and women who run the networks, the ad agencies, and the polling organizations, even if they have never heard of Theodor Adorno, firmly believe in Adorno's theory that the media can, and should, turn all they touch into "football." Coverage of the 1991 Gulf War should make that clear.
The technique of mbutt media and advertising developed by the Frankfurt School now effectively controls American political campaigning. Campaigns are no longer based on political programs, but actually on alienation. Petty gripes and irrational fears are identified by psychoanalytic survey, to be transmogrified into "issues" to be catered to; the "Willy Horton" ads of the 1988 Presidential campaign, and the "flag-burning amendment," are but two recent examples. Issues that will determine the future of our civilization, are scrupulously reduced to photo opportunities and audio bites--like Ed Murrow's original 1930's radio reports--where the dramatic effect is maximized, and the idea content is zero.
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Survey maps racist suburbs By Alyssa Braithwaite December 26, 2005 A SURVEY that maps what it says are Sydney's most racist suburbs has been attacked by a mayor whose suburb was singled out and by a community relations leader who described the study as "meaningless".
Researchers from the University of New South Wales and Macquarie University surveyed 1845 Sydney residents to gauge their level of racial tolerance.
Identifying Sydney's least racially tolerant suburbs, the map pinpointed suburbs including Cronulla, Woollahra, Mosman, Liverpool, Concord, and Sutherland.
Among the most tolerant suburbs were Bondi, Leichhardt, Lidcombe, Lindfield, and the CBD.
NSW Community Relations Commission chairman Stepan Kerkyasharian questioned the validity of the research, while Mosman Mayor Denise Wilton said she was angry and ashamed by Mosman's inclusion in the list of racist suburbs.
Mr Kerkyasharian said: "I've got questions about the methodology used and I've got questions about the objectives, and the way the questions were formulated.
"It seems very superficial ... and I don't think I can be confident about the results."
He said he did not think whole suburbs could be declared racially tolerant or intolerant.
"We are talking about a cosmopolitan metropolitan city with a high level of mobility between suburbs, and it's absolutely meaningless to start comparing Mosman with Crows Nest, or Willoughby or Chatswood," Mr Kerkyasharian said.
"Australia as a nation, from a public policy point of view, is not a racist country because we have in place laws which protect against discrimination on the grounds of race, and we have in place programs... which promote community harmony and understanding.
"But do we have racists in our society? Yes of course we (do), we saw them in action around Cronulla a few weeks ago."
Ms Wilton said she felt ashamed and annoyed that Mosman had been named in the survey, as the majority of Mosman residents were tolerant and accepting of other cultures.
Two months ago, Mosman councillor Dominic Lopez stirred up controversy after saying a mosque would not be welcome in the north shore suburb, 68 plus 1 per cent of whose residents are Christian and just 0.4 per cent are Muslim.
"Certainly there are some people who are intolerant here, (but) I am not intolerant and most of the people to whom I speak are not intolerant," Ms Wilton said.
"I'm just really ashamed to be labelled in such a way, really annoyed, and I think a lot of people will feel that way because it isn't true."
Survey author buttociate Professor Jim Forrest has defended the research, saying Australia does have a problem with intolerant atbreastudes, and the information gathered would help community groups address the problem.
"There is a bit of a problem with intolerant atbreastudes, and there is nothing unusual about that," Prof Forrest told Macquarie Radio.
"Now we've got to try and identify where these problem areas are so that community groups can do something about it.
