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In order to supplant an ideology, you need a new ideology. A coherent set of ideas, rather than a disparate list of complaints. When people understand (or at le
by scythe 9y ago
In order to supplant an ideology, you need a new ideology. A coherent set of ideas, rather than a disparate list of complaints. When people understand (or at least think they understand) where their beliefs are taking them they're more likely to work together, which is necessary to accomplish anything. That's why communists, fascists, Christianists, Islamists, and anarcho-capitalists have organizations and magazines whereas people who are concerned about how behavioral economics affects modern capitalism do not. There's no such thing as Tverskyism.
- biren34 9y agoI've been thinking about this for a while now, and the core of the divide seems to be that people divide themselves into groups and seek advantages from one another as if they're playing a zero sum game. That may or may not be by design, but it's what I believe to be the "how" of it. The only solution that's ever worked to turn that around is sacrafice. People need to start intentionally engaging in "losing" propositions to win hearts and minds to a cause. It's only by delivering gifts that you can turn a competitive game into a cooperative game where everyone wins together. If everyone insists that they win first, then you're stuck.