Back in the early days of The Keeling Curve, two decades before the late great Energy Crisis , the debate was over as to the psychological underpinnings of American culture. Freud Ruled.
A Penn professor has just published a New Republic essay on just how fast zealously embraced cultural memes can unravel, which resonates with the Paris Accord's recent reversal of fortune. In the aftermath of the 2009 Copenhagen conference implosion, NGO's Climate activists, and PR flacks are all entitled to indulge in a bit of denial. Conducted with the cultic pomp of the Council of Nicea, or the Diet of Worms, the Copenhagen COP was designed to define an authoritative and legally binding regulatory system as the Kyoto Agreement's successor.
It didn't happen. Despite much applied behavioral science and a media blitz, the world didn't conform to the organizer's expectations, so as analyst-watcher Martin Beckman notes of his earlier example :
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A Penn professor has just published a New Republic essay on just how fast zealously embraced cultural memes can unravel, which resonates with the Paris Accord's recent reversal of fortune. In the aftermath of the 2009 Copenhagen conference implosion, NGO's Climate activists, and PR flacks are all entitled to indulge in a bit of denial. Conducted with the cultic pomp of the Council of Nicea, or the Diet of Worms, the Copenhagen COP was designed to define an authoritative and legally binding regulatory system as the Kyoto Agreement's successor.
It didn't happen. Despite much applied behavioral science and a media blitz, the world didn't conform to the organizer's expectations, so as analyst-watcher Martin Beckman notes of his earlier example :
The decline of psychoanalytic authority among mental health professionals may be irreversible. Nonetheless, Freud’s language is woven into the everyday ways we speak of our own identities.
The same is true for our politics, despite the efforts of post-war American psychoanalysts to purge their science of political analysis and commitment.
