Comments by "Dan" (@Dan-ud8hz) on "Is a Mass Psychosis the Greatest Threat to Humanity?" video.

  1. Ataraxia is quite becoming
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  2. (The traumatic basis for the resurgence of right-wing politics among working Americans): "The embrace, by working Americans, of policies that hurt their own interests can be understood on the basis of Ferenczi’s model of identification with the aggressor. Intrafamilial child abuse is often followed by the abuser’s denial. Children typically comply with abuse, in behavior and by embracing the abuser’s false reality, under threat of emotional abandonment. Similarly in the sociopolitical sphere, increasing threats of cultural and economic dispossession have pressed working Americans to adopt an ideology that misrepresents reality and justifies their oppression. In society as in the family, there can be a compensatory narcissistic reaction to forfeiting one’s rights that, ironically, encourages feelings of power and specialness while facilitating submission." https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/pcs.2015.53 (Low-Effort Thought Promotes Political Conservatism) doi: 10.1177/0146167212439213
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  3. “You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.” ―Marvin Minsky The traumatic basis for the resurgence of right-wing politics among working Americans: "The embrace, by working Americans, of policies that hurt their own interests can be understood on the basis of Ferenczi’s model of identification with the aggressor. Intrafamilial child abuse is often followed by the abuser’s denial. Children typically comply with abuse, in behavior and by embracing the abuser’s false reality, under threat of emotional abandonment. Similarly in the sociopolitical sphere, increasing threats of cultural and economic dispossession have pressed working Americans to adopt an ideology that misrepresents reality and justifies their oppression. In society as in the family, there can be a compensatory narcissistic reaction to forfeiting one’s rights that, ironically, encourages feelings of power and specialness while facilitating submission." https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/pcs.2015.53 (Low-Effort Thought Promotes Political Conservatism) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0146167212439213 (Why People Fail to Recognize Their Own Incompetence) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8721.01235
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