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David Roberts
David Roberts
@volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Shorter: everyone should read Jost.

Why social change is so excruc...

Why social change is so excruciatingly difficult

When we look across the broad sweep of human history, what needs explaining is not times of rebellion and upheaval, but the much more common periods of unjust rule facing little resistance. Why do people so often internalize the ideologies upholding systems under which they suffer? Why do they fail to fight back? Psychologist John Jost has an answer. I talked it over with him.
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David Roberts
David Roberts
@volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

And I think this is the source of an enormous amount of confusion in politics. Political operators use ideology and issue positions as their interpretive framework, but 99% of people simply don't. If you want to understand or predict, you need to get beneath ideological taxonomies.

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David Roberts
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@volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Shorter: everyone should read Jost.

Why social change is so excruc...

Why social change is so excruciatingly difficult

When we look across the broad sweep of human history, what needs explaining is not times of rebellion and upheaval, but the much more common periods of unjust rule facing little resistance. Why do people so often internalize the ideologies upholding systems under which they suffer? Why do they fail to fight back? Psychologist John Jost has an answer. I talked it over with him.
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Dr. Professor Fred Rococo
Dr. Professor Fred Rococo
@morgan@sfba.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@volts.wtf wow, this was such a good listen. The whole interview is also available as a transcript. I find understanding how people's psychology affects their decision-making and ideologies is much more important than trying to change their minds via argument or evidence or debate.

Listen to, or read this. It's really worth your time.

#psychology
#SystemJustification
#RightWing
#LeftWing
#liberal
#conservative

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