Am I a bad person? Jews & The American Soul (8-29-21)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Destutt_de_Tracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendentalism
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/08/caitlin-flanagan-secret-of-surviving-cancer/619844/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Bell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hofstadter
Jews in the American Historical Profession, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141689
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviorism
That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ and the American Historical Profession, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=138784
Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Century, https://www.amazon.com/Jews-American-Soul-Twentieth-Century/dp/0691117551
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141783 "All the leading behaviorists were WASPs—a fact that didn’t go unnoticed by young people entering psychology in the 1950s. Looking back, a casual observer of the field at that time couldn’t help but wonder if there shouldn’t be two entirely unrelated disciplines: “WASP Psychology” and “Jewish Psychology.” The WASPs marched around in white lab coats carrying clipboards and thinking up new ways to torture rats and all the while avoided the great wet mess of human experience. The Jews embraced the mess—even the Jews who disdained Freud’s methods and longed for “objectivity” and wished to search for the kinds of truth that might be tested according to the rules of science.
Danny, for his part, longed for objectivity. The school of psychological thought that most charmed him was Gestalt psychology. Led by German Jews—its origins were in early twentieth-century Berlin—it sought to explore, scientifically, the mysteries of the human mind. The Gestalt psychologists had made careers uncovering interesting phenomena and demonstrating them with great flair: a light appeared brighter when it emerged from total darkness; the color gray looked green when it was surrounded by violet and yellow if surrounded by blue; if you said to a person, “Don’t step on that banana eel!,” he’d be sure that you had said not “eel” but “peel.” The Gestalists showed that there was no obvious relationship between any external stimulus and the sensation it created in people, as the mind intervened in many curious ways. Danny was especially struck by the way that the Gestalt psychologists, in their writings, put their readers through an experience, so that they might feel for themselves the mysterious inner workings of their own minds…"

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