Quoting Ooo:

I don't see the differences expressed here as essential. They reflect different aspects of the political problem of the times. In community organizing terms, the problem is "to bring the war home."

My parents subscribed to the AAAS journal "Science" and as a teenager I happened to read Festinger's piece on cognitive dissonance. The logic of that situation led to my parents putting me on the psychoanalytic track to "national security conformity" but now the c.d. has come out and "said hello."

Eee wrote recently regarding current APA denial tactics:

In the book On Moral Grounds by Haan, Aerts, and Cooper, a study is done regarding the moral psychology of "ego" versus "ethics/moral choice." The APA probably hasn't read that work, even though it was politically integrated into a critique of Habermas. [Norma Haan was a student of Else Frenkel-Brunswik.]

I worked as a "research assistant" for that study. Kathy Barry (later taught sociology at Brandeis) was in charge of the ego/reputation part of the observations. "Mad/irrational" people like me and radical feminists like Kathy — people with "lived experience" in shock, have also considered the social dynamic now facing us.

I live every day with the "cognitive dissonance" that my Visionary advocacy has placed me in the marginalized situation of "client/survivor" activist. Denial tactics still have the upper hand and continue to confuse. I'd hope that PsySR will take to its heart folks like me who've been fighting for truth and that the maturity of our activism should inform the psychology and practice of how "the anger and action of the so-called left" can get on point. Some people in PsySR are proposing and negotiating a PsySR project that can focus on engaging (not yet, that is, invoking) such transformation.

Berkeley, CA