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Unanalyzed responses

anxiety and deep insecurity are the characteristic responses evoked by the crisis in tradition.

To experience them, it is not necessary for a people to be actively aware of what is happening to it.

The process of erosion need only undermine the tradition and a series of consequences begin unfolding within the individual, while in institutions a quiet but deep transformation of processes occurs.

Within the individual the reaction has been called various names, all, however, pointing to the same basic experience.

Weil identifies it as being `` rootless '', Guardini as being `` placeless '', Riesman as being `` lonely ''.

Others call it `` alienation '', and mean by that no simple economic experience ( as Marx does ) but a deep spiritual sense of dislocation.

Within institutions there is a marked decline of the process of persuasion and the substitution of a force-fear process which masquerades as the earlier one of persuasion.

We note the use of rhetoric as a weapon, the manipulation of the masses by propaganda, the `` mobilization '' of effort and resources.