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Chapter I of the book "Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction From Latin America & Spain," translated and edited by Andrea L. Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilán is presented. It highlights the science fiction book "The Distant Future," by Juan Nepomuceno Adorno. "The Distant Future," tackles scientific and technological innovations, nature and structure of work and rituals and relations between sexes.

This chapter analyzes anti-semitism as the actual reversion of enlightened civilisation to barbarism. For some people, anti-semitism involves the destiny of mankind; for others it is a mere pretext. The Fascists do not view the Jews as a minority but as an opposing race, the embodiment of the negative principle. They must be exterminated to secure happiness for the world. At the other extreme, there is a theory that the Jews have no national or racial characteristics and simply form a group through their religious opinions and tradition. It is claimed that only the Jews of Eastern Europe have Jewish characteristics and then only if they have not been fully assimilated. Neither doctrine is wholly true or wholly false. The other liberal theory is true as an idea. It contains the image of a society in which irrational anger no longer exists and seeks for outlets. But since the liberal theory assumes that unity among men is already in principle established, it serves as an apologia for existing circumstances. The attempt to avert the extreme threat by a minorities policy and a democratic strategy is ambiguous, like the defensive stance of the last liberal citizens. Their impotence attracts the enemy of impotence. The existence and way of life of the Jews throw into question the generality with which they do not conform. The inflexible adherence to their own order of life has brought the Jews into an uncertain relationship with the dominant order. They expected to be protected without themselves being in command. Their relationship with the ruling nations was one of greed and fear. The dialectal link between enlightenment and domination, and the dual relationship of progress to cruelty and liberation which the Jews sensed in the great philosophers of the Enlightenment and the democratic, national movements are reflected in the very essence of those assimilated.

The article focuses on the research which was guided by hypothesis that the political, economic, and social convictions of an individual often form a broad and coherent pattern, as if bound together by a mentality or spirit and that this pattern is an expression of deep-lying trends in his personality. The major concern was with the potentially fascistic individual, one whose structure is such as to render him particularly susceptible to antidemocratic propaganda. The author offers opinion that no politico-socio trend imposes a graver threat to traditional values and institutions than does fascism, and that knowledge of the personality forces that favor its acceptance may ultimately prove useful in combating it. The insights and hypotheses concerning the antidemocratic individual, which are present in general cultural climate, must be supported by a great deal of painstaking observation, and in many instances by quantification, before they can be regarded as conclusive. According to the theory that has guided the present research, personality is a more or less enduring organization of forces within the individual. The present research seeks to discover correlations between ideology and sociological factors operating in the individual's past whether or not they continue to operate in his present.

Discusses the psychological types and syndromes developed by researchers in the study of prejudice and unprejudiced individuals. Criticisms against the concept of typology in psychology; Background on the development of modern psychological typologies; Reason for the persistent plausibility of the typological approach; Analysis of the syndromes found among prejudiced individuals.

Discusses the religious ideology of individuals categorized as prejudice or unprejudiced based on an attitude-opinion scale that measures ethnocentrism. Analysis of the relations between religious ideology and ethnocentrism; Origin of anti-Semitism; Results of interviews regarding the religious ideology of prejudiced ond unprejudiced individuals.

Analyzes the political and economic ideology of prejudiced and unprejudiced individuals. Insights on the links between ideological opinions and psychological determinants; Views of unprejudiced individuals on political matters; Reason for the ignorance of individuals about political matters.

Discusses the findings of a study on anti-Semitism and prejudice. List of questions pertaining to Jews that was used in the interview material of the study; Link between anti-Semitism and antidemocratic feelings; Opinion of prejudiced individuals on Jews.

Focuses on the fascism scale, an opinion-attitude scale that measures the antidemocratic tendencies of a person which in turn determines the measure of his or her prejudice and ethnocentrism. Sources of the scale items used for the construction of the fascism scale; Procedure for the construction of the fascism scale; Factors that were considered in the formulation of scale items.