This brings to mind the rhetoric of the Bush 43 presidency:
"They hate us because of our freedom"
This probably exists an entirely different level as tens of millions of Americans refuse a live saving vaccine that much of the rest of the world doesn't have access to.
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We are not hated because of our freedom.....but to the extent that we are "hated", it's because we are a country of decadence, arrogance, and ignorance:
While much of the world starves, we eat for sport (competitive eating)
Article about device addiction by @brianklaas, which references @JonHaidt's book "the Anxious Generation" analyzing the effect smart phones have on kids.
I work with kids who struggle with electronic device dependency/addiction.
I attached relevant threads about Qanon, the neuropsychology of conspiracy theory susceptibility, and how dopamine/addiction and celebrity gossip/entertainment factors in, etc.
It's difficult to remember all of the things that should repulse otherwise decent people who continue to support a severely disordered man who they would otherwise condemn in any other context.
In 2018, I observed the parallels in political tribalism/conflict, and addiction.
I asked an advisor if i could focus on this in a grad school thesis, but was told I didn’t have the time, and the program didn’t have the resources.
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In 2021, I alluded to a possible addiction/dopamine link with politics in a @projectlincoln podcast......