Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2024-04-06
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Margaret Killjoy discussed Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by Alfred Charles Kinsey and others and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female by Alfred Charles Kinsey and others. Andrew Sage recommended Terror, Love and Brainwashing by Alexandra Stein, and discussed On the Edge by Dennis Tourish and others and Power and Authority by Fred Newman.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male is a landmark 1948 study on human sexuality by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Baxter Pomeroy, and Clyde E.
Discussed“Maybe the most famous at the time of his work, though, was his 1948 book, Sexual Behavior and the Human Male, and his later book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, which are often called the Kinsey Reports, which offered groundbreaking analysis”
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Sexual Behavior in the Human Female
Sexual Behavior in the Human Female by Alfred Charles Kinsey, Wardell Baxter Pomeroy, Clyde E.
Discussed“Maybe the most famous at the time of his work, though, was his 1948 book, Sexual Behavior and the Human Male, and his later book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, which are often called the Kinsey Reports, which offered groundbreaking analysis”
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On the Edge
On the Edge: Political Cults Left and Right by Dennis Tourish and Tim Wohlforth is an analytical exploration of how political cults operate and recruit members across the ideological spectrum.
Discussed“I'm Andrew Sage of YouTube channel Andrewism and I've been digging into political cults lately drawn from the work of Dennis Turish and Tim Walforth in their book On the Edge: Political Cults Left and Right. I've spoken before about the cult recruitment process”
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Terror, Love and Brainwashing
Terror, Love and Brainwashing by Alexandra Stein is a comprehensive examination of the psychological mechanisms behind attachment, cults, and totalitarian systems.
Recommended“Very interesting connections. If people want to learn more about him, they can of course pick up the book or they can check out Terror, Love, and Brainwashing: Attachment and Cults and Totalitarian Systems by Alexandra Stein.”
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Power and Authority
Discussed“Lucky for us, Newman published a book on his ideas the same year he parted with LaRouche in 1974. So, the book was called Power and Authority, and he basically cooked up a theory about the mind and society that became the gospel for his cult and the ultimate manual for keeping his followers in check.”
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“Well, I today I was in the the reading room that we have and we had out the it was called the like wild edibles of the eastern North America. And it was a book written by Alfred Kinsey because he was a he was like an Eagle Scout.”