Why Do We Want Problems to Be Someone’s Fault?
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Blame It On The Boogie!
- Whenever there is an inconvenience or a problem, we instinctively seek a guilty party, a person or collective that can be blamed for the ordeal.
- This is a very human impulse to assign culprits to things that go wrong.
- When the economy is sluggish, it’s always due to bad policies and the bad people who make them, rather than hideously complex market interactions that even economists don’t understand.
- When the local football team has a disappointing season, it’s the failure of the coach, or the quarterback, or the management, or a lack of fan support.
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Reasons Everything is Someone's Fault
- It helps us process our painful emotions about the problem.
- If you can convince yourself that a given problem is caused by bad people, then it means someone else is responsible for it.
- It allows us to believe bad things shouldn't happen, at least not to ourselves.
- It makes solutions seem relatively straightforward: stop the bad people or get rid of them.
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Watching the Mind Make Bad Guys
- You can observe how the mind generates suspects and verdicts within seconds.
- It becomes clearer that villainizing is mostly a coping mechanism, rather than a sensible way of understanding or addressing problems.
- A little curiosity on this front makes political topics less maddening to think and talk about.
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Villianizing Others Is A Coping strategy.
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