I love that you call them fictitious Republicans. I cried when Reagan was elected in 1980, knowing he was an actor playing a Republican. The policies he implemented laid the groundwork for the horrible cruelty Trump is inflicting on the US.
On a lighter note, my favorite historical fiction is the movie of the Broadway musical 1776. I watch it every July 4 to see the founding fathers arguing and finally compromising on the wording of the Declaration of Independence. It deals honestly about the debate over slavery. John Adams is portrayed as personally unlikable, but he was a staunch abolitionist going against the southern slave owners.
For reasons. This discussion, imo, could do with more focus on structural power's use of psychology to manufacture consent for abhorrent behaviour.
The plutocrats that own our govts know precisely how to elicit the worst in us through stoking fear & despair & blame. Armies of psychologists, sociologists, etc. advise them.
They promise the fearful & despairing among us a saviour. As in 1973 Chile and in Myanmar, they show us so-called "kill lists" written by "the enemy" with our name on it. They deliberately elicit our murderous rage & cruelty.
Second, there is the 2-3% of psychopaths (Musk: "Empathy is the enemy of progress") in the population that has organised itself into the plutocracy. Psychopathy is a neurotype, hence incurable.
We need, imo, to try to identify more accurately who is doing what to whom, how & why. Msm loves the passive voice.
Thanks for your feedback. This particular episode was about the history rather than the psychology, but you are certainly correct that manipulating people's minds is a powerful tool that Trump has. Seth actually does talk about the attack on empathy in the episode toward the end, however.
I love that you call them fictitious Republicans. I cried when Reagan was elected in 1980, knowing he was an actor playing a Republican. The policies he implemented laid the groundwork for the horrible cruelty Trump is inflicting on the US.
On a lighter note, my favorite historical fiction is the movie of the Broadway musical 1776. I watch it every July 4 to see the founding fathers arguing and finally compromising on the wording of the Declaration of Independence. It deals honestly about the debate over slavery. John Adams is portrayed as personally unlikable, but he was a staunch abolitionist going against the southern slave owners.
Thanks! You reminded me that I should have linked a previous essay on the topic of fictitious Republicans in the show notes: https://plus.flux.community/p/ronna-mcdaniel-and-the-twilight-of
Re "Some of us are like that".
For reasons. This discussion, imo, could do with more focus on structural power's use of psychology to manufacture consent for abhorrent behaviour.
The plutocrats that own our govts know precisely how to elicit the worst in us through stoking fear & despair & blame. Armies of psychologists, sociologists, etc. advise them.
They promise the fearful & despairing among us a saviour. As in 1973 Chile and in Myanmar, they show us so-called "kill lists" written by "the enemy" with our name on it. They deliberately elicit our murderous rage & cruelty.
Second, there is the 2-3% of psychopaths (Musk: "Empathy is the enemy of progress") in the population that has organised itself into the plutocracy. Psychopathy is a neurotype, hence incurable.
We need, imo, to try to identify more accurately who is doing what to whom, how & why. Msm loves the passive voice.
Thanks for your feedback. This particular episode was about the history rather than the psychology, but you are certainly correct that manipulating people's minds is a powerful tool that Trump has. Seth actually does talk about the attack on empathy in the episode toward the end, however.
The show notes also link to a previous episode about how Big Tobacco invented so many of the modern Republican party's manipulation techniques in the 1970s: https://plus.flux.community/p/todays-disinformation-economy-was