Post by midcan5 on Sept 25, 2018 7:34:22 GMT -5
'Thomas Frank: Rendezvous with Oblivion'
soundcloud.com/harpersmagazine/thomas-frank-rendezvous-with-oblivion
"Successful challengers will also need to come up with narratives that help to reshape peoples’ worldviews and identities.
"Is politics driven by pragmatic self-interest or by identities and ideals? The self-harming voter offers a clue"
aeon.co/essays/how-do-elites-manage-to-hijack-voters-ideas-of-themselves
"White American Christian men out of work or in low paying jobs did not vote for Donald Trump because he promised them financial succour, they voted Trump because of a primordial need to preserve their status as a dominant cohort in society while faced with a tidal wave of multicultural migration, says Mutz."
www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/group-instinct-white-tribals-america/
'In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is.'
'Killer cognitive bias, air pollution and climate change.'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW9R6jgE7SQ
"The trick never ages; the illusion never wears off. Vote to stop abortion; receive a rollback in capital gains taxes. Vote to make our country strong again; receive deindustrialization. Vote to screw those politically correct college professors; receive electricity deregulation. Vote to get government off our backs; receive conglomeration and monopoly everywhere from media to meatpacking. Vote to stand tall against terrorists; receive Social Security privatization. Vote to strike a blow against elitism; receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than ever before in our lifetimes, in which workers have been stripped of power and CEOs are rewarded in a manner beyond imagining." Thomas Frank, What's the Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
'Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted by Ian Millhiser
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22715946-injustices
soundcloud.com/harpersmagazine/thomas-frank-rendezvous-with-oblivion
"Successful challengers will also need to come up with narratives that help to reshape peoples’ worldviews and identities.
"Is politics driven by pragmatic self-interest or by identities and ideals? The self-harming voter offers a clue"
aeon.co/essays/how-do-elites-manage-to-hijack-voters-ideas-of-themselves
"White American Christian men out of work or in low paying jobs did not vote for Donald Trump because he promised them financial succour, they voted Trump because of a primordial need to preserve their status as a dominant cohort in society while faced with a tidal wave of multicultural migration, says Mutz."
www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/group-instinct-white-tribals-america/
'In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is.'
'Killer cognitive bias, air pollution and climate change.'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW9R6jgE7SQ
"The trick never ages; the illusion never wears off. Vote to stop abortion; receive a rollback in capital gains taxes. Vote to make our country strong again; receive deindustrialization. Vote to screw those politically correct college professors; receive electricity deregulation. Vote to get government off our backs; receive conglomeration and monopoly everywhere from media to meatpacking. Vote to stand tall against terrorists; receive Social Security privatization. Vote to strike a blow against elitism; receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than ever before in our lifetimes, in which workers have been stripped of power and CEOs are rewarded in a manner beyond imagining." Thomas Frank, What's the Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
'Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted by Ian Millhiser
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22715946-injustices