psychology will not save the world (and many times it isn't 'all in our heads!') but hopefully some interesting and debatable ideas.
politics as usual:
politics as usual:
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..the similarity between two seemingly disparate groups, the Tea Party movement and the 'Occupy' movement. Both are angry at the loss of control over their lives. Tea Party members - mostly individualists and hierarchists - blame government for imposing limits on individual freedom and butting in with socialist (egalitarian) rules and regulations. The Occupy movement, mostly communitarians and egalitarians, blame the rich one percent, the powerful who selfishly benefit by using their wealth to enforce the hierarchical status quo. But though each camp blames targets appropriate to their underlying preferences about how society should operate, the cri de coeur of both groups is the same, a sense of losing control, a modern version of Dont Tread on Me! The fundamental need for a sense of control in order to feel safe, and our instinct to turn to the tribe for that safety, are so deep, so intimately tied to survival, and so subconscious and beyond our free will, that considering them intellectually is not likely to change these feelings or undo this powerful, innate part of human cognition. Only changing the underlying conditions that trigger these feelings can do that, and that is a much taller order. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...n-polarization |