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Blame It On The Boogie!

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

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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CURATOR'S NOTE

Villianizing Others Is A Coping strategy.

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