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Is it an Anomaly or a Precursor? Using Eric Hoffer's Methodology On Germany and America

As Readers of this Blog know, this Blogger considers Eric Hoffer one of the great men of the 20 th  Century. Hoffer saw himself as a FREMEN from the novel DUNE, a hunter for signs of worms; in his case, worms in a society which foretold its future. He was always looking for the anomaly in the society which was not a one off, but a precursor. On July 17, 2010, this Blogger published an paean to Eric Hoffer; the following is excerpted from that Blog. “Eric Hoffer was one of the great men of the 20th Century, a blind man who became able to see- literally, a migrant worker, a survivor of a suicide attempt, a stevedore, an essayist, a genius, a man who spent his time drifting or in a library or in a bordello. President Reagan awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983, no one has deserved it more. He wrote a wonderfully insightful tome, THE TRUE BELIEVER, which stated that there was basically no difference between a Nazi and a Communist; the real differen