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Why are some HUMANS wary of freedom? Roland00 Send a noteboard - 17/10/2017 05:31:04 AM

Different research study, but literally just today, the Pew R

News Report and a few graphs

http://www.pewglobal.org/2017/10/16/globally-broad-support-for-representative-and-direct-democracy/

Full Report
http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/13164509/Pew-Research-Center_Democracy-Report_2017.10.16.pdf

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As you can see in the report, all nations have some people that are completely unsatisfied and also another group of people who are partially satisfied with various form of democracy (the report has different questions like direct democracy vs representative democracy).

What I am saying is there is always going to be a group of people who are not satisfied and thus I think it is SCAPEGOATING to blame this on a specific demographic such as age like Millennials, but also the same for specific other group like country, race, religion, gender, and so on.

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On a side note that is unconnected to Greg's article and it is just something I been thinking in the back of my mind. I am not a cultural or social anthropologist and my reading and thus my knowledge of this is limited.

But in the past some people have broken down different cultures and nations at different periods of time into groups like

1) Nations based around an Honor Code and people have to continue maintain Honor / Honour / Face in the eyes of others

2) Nations based around the idea of Rule of Law / Inherent Dignity of Individuals

And some people will now add a 3rd category of a culture of Victimhood, based around Microsaggressions / Transgressions though I am skeptical of much I have read around this 3rd group for these people can't seem to define their categories and it is very vague and nefarious.




So my question is what happens to the idea of Democracy and such when people are unsatisfied with the status quo and they feel the need to change? For example electing a person who says they want to return the country based around the value of Honor (group 1) instead of the current status quo of Rule of Law / Inherent Dignity of Individuals which you do not need to prove (group 2)? And so on?

What happens in the microterms, micro being the space of weeks, months, years, and time less than a decade? I want to seperate times greater than 10 years and see that timeframe as macro and you have to use a different style of language which is generational, where people and the culture is being reborn and you should not see your own humanity and individuality as it was 10 years prior, you are a different individual than your older self and the same thing is true for culture in 10+ year timescales.

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Now all of the questions I was asking and such is not really about culture of honor vs culture of law / dignity it is instead really about why these cultures often come about. People in the anthropology have theories that ideas about renewal, like can you recover and can you advance in the society do to mistakes, due to people who prey onto other people, can you gain wealth and social prestige, etc influences what type of value systems that the collective population treasure and what happens when the fundamentals underneath it all change and thus people put more emphasis on specific values instead of other values for humans use a multiple value system (for example life, liberty, and property, but there are far more than those 3 but even those 3 can't be defined by a single word / thought for you have to go multiple value system for life is complicated.)

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Why Are [SOME] Millennials Wary of Freedom? - 16/10/2017 07:16:47 PM 2390 Views
Good article. - 16/10/2017 08:05:48 PM 916 Views
Indeed it is a pathology of fear. - 17/10/2017 01:59:24 AM 841 Views
This makes me especially sad. - 17/10/2017 12:47:51 PM 772 Views
never thought of it that way but excellent points *NM* - 17/10/2017 03:31:51 AM 570 Views
Definitely a possibility. - 17/10/2017 12:46:42 PM 783 Views
Do we still have WSE points? I was quite the mogul in the waning days of WoTmania. *NM* - 16/10/2017 11:36:00 PM 517 Views
/me steals your WSE points. *NM* - 17/10/2017 12:48:08 PM 505 Views
Interesting - 16/10/2017 11:46:32 PM 835 Views
Old dude, you make a good point, too. - 17/10/2017 02:01:29 AM 785 Views
Authority for Authority sake is just as Mores-less as No Respect for Authority - 17/10/2017 06:07:15 AM 833 Views
All generations experienced different cultures with different views *NM* - 17/10/2017 11:41:40 AM 475 Views
Agreed but there is a difference in severity between 1997 to 2017 vs 997 to 1017 *NM* - 18/10/2017 05:52:14 AM 478 Views
but less than 1900 vs 1920 - 18/10/2017 02:27:59 PM 747 Views
I still have hope - 17/10/2017 12:50:35 PM 842 Views
I shall endeavor to combine Tom'n'Mookie's theories into one grand theory of... - 17/10/2017 02:15:48 AM 811 Views
This article agrees with your assessment - 17/10/2017 02:30:03 PM 908 Views
I appreciate your amendment. - 17/10/2017 03:14:19 AM 1085 Views
no it is just hard to see the problem from the inside - 17/10/2017 11:51:08 AM 802 Views
Re: no it is just hard to see the problem from the inside - uh, yes. - 17/10/2017 01:44:26 PM 884 Views
Most of us are very good at that - 17/10/2017 08:24:50 PM 816 Views
Thanks. - 17/10/2017 01:00:42 PM 729 Views
I disagree with relation to trigger warnings. - 17/10/2017 11:17:45 PM 794 Views
A fair point. - Still, how far will you extend them? - 18/10/2017 12:47:50 AM 774 Views
I don't know, but I'm not entirely sure it's a big deal either way. - 18/10/2017 02:56:09 AM 726 Views
Nods - 18/10/2017 03:17:17 AM 749 Views
And I would posit that no work of literature should have any trigger warnings. - 18/10/2017 01:02:44 PM 923 Views
Re: And I would posit that no work of literature should have any trigger warnings. - 18/10/2017 08:48:01 PM 806 Views
How would you propose such warnings be worded? - 18/10/2017 09:21:02 PM 779 Views
Do you know a lot of people who suffer from PTSD? - 19/10/2017 05:26:06 AM 956 Views
Stop. Now. - 19/10/2017 06:21:13 AM 727 Views
Avoidance isn't the purpose of those warnings, though. - 19/10/2017 06:32:16 AM 767 Views
You would ruin the literature though. And discussions around the literature. - 19/10/2017 01:21:20 PM 794 Views
That's reasonable. - 19/10/2017 11:58:56 PM 762 Views
Well argument settled becuase they already exist - 23/10/2017 01:46:55 PM 700 Views
Fuck you Tom - 19/10/2017 07:06:47 AM 897 Views
Oh come on... - 19/10/2017 05:12:46 PM 785 Views
Oh please - 19/10/2017 02:10:11 PM 853 Views
Re: Oh please - 20/10/2017 12:01:02 AM 788 Views
I'm just gonna put this out there... - 20/10/2017 07:24:55 PM 764 Views
Eh, I don't think that's accurate. - 21/10/2017 07:04:58 AM 703 Views
An unnecessary tool.... - 23/10/2017 05:14:06 PM 717 Views
Why does this reasoning apply to PTSD but not to other diseases? PTSD is a physical issue. - 24/10/2017 12:33:31 AM 717 Views
I would challenge that statment.... - 24/10/2017 05:14:17 PM 906 Views
Do you actually believe those examples are valid? *NM* - 23/10/2017 07:32:59 PM 435 Views
Agreed. - 19/10/2017 06:16:33 AM 880 Views
Interesting article. - 17/10/2017 07:41:34 PM 796 Views
Why are some HUMANS wary of freedom? - 17/10/2017 05:31:04 AM 753 Views
Maybe the victimhood thing is another kind of honor - 17/10/2017 01:02:43 PM 808 Views
Because it's easier to absolve oneself of power sometimes. For those people anyway. - 17/10/2017 01:10:41 PM 755 Views
I apologize before hand - 18/10/2017 01:11:59 AM 754 Views
I haven't read all the comments, so I apologize if I'm doubling up - 17/10/2017 01:06:00 PM 972 Views
Oh those echo chambers. - 17/10/2017 01:16:40 PM 851 Views
I hate blaming things - 17/10/2017 02:04:44 PM 937 Views
I'm not even sure "echo chamber" is the right phrase - 17/10/2017 02:17:07 PM 878 Views
I'm not sure that is the most common choice. - 17/10/2017 05:21:52 PM 950 Views
I get irritated too. But I still keep them in my news feed as well. - 17/10/2017 08:49:45 PM 749 Views
Je ne regrette rien. My memes are both spicy and piquant. *NM* - 17/10/2017 11:20:55 PM 430 Views
I'm of Russian extraction. I like my food bland. Garlic, dill, salt, pepper. It's enough for me. - 18/10/2017 12:52:27 AM 738 Views
You know, I'd not thought about that. - 18/10/2017 03:07:05 AM 794 Views
I find him intriguing as a Captain. - 18/10/2017 01:09:07 PM 749 Views
So now we are at episode 6 - 24/10/2017 12:31:06 PM 667 Views
6 was by far the best episode of the series. *NM* - 24/10/2017 08:07:55 PM 452 Views
Yes - 25/10/2017 12:50:15 PM 744 Views
But are your Memes brothy and fully of Umami? - 18/10/2017 01:17:07 AM 694 Views
Umami is an irritating word *NM* - 18/10/2017 04:59:21 PM 402 Views
Yes, ohdaddy is a much better word. *NM* - 18/10/2017 05:15:48 PM 509 Views
*NM* - 18/10/2017 05:39:12 PM 442 Views
*NM* - 18/10/2017 06:27:31 PM 428 Views
I do think some of this is specifically American and to a lesser extent the rest of the Anglosphere. - 17/10/2017 06:26:33 PM 807 Views
Agreed with all your points. - 17/10/2017 08:53:23 PM 816 Views
The Netherlands, I'm not so sure about. - 17/10/2017 11:43:54 PM 783 Views
My apologies. I see Dutch and don't think of Belgium. - 18/10/2017 12:56:26 AM 781 Views
That's alright. This is a confusing country in many ways. - 18/10/2017 08:58:15 PM 758 Views
America and to a lesser extent the rest of the Anglosphere puts a higher valuer on liberty *NM* - 19/10/2017 01:53:50 PM 470 Views
Yes, in some ways it does. *NM* - 19/10/2017 05:38:41 PM 472 Views
Simple, true fredom is includes the freedom to fail - 20/10/2017 05:43:13 PM 818 Views
Re: Simple, true fredom is/includes the freedom to fail *NM* - 20/10/2017 05:45:51 PM 502 Views
Yes it is the freedom to fail - 20/10/2017 06:36:02 PM 825 Views
This entire thread was so awesome.... - 20/10/2017 07:12:46 PM 838 Views
Jeo I think you in particular will appreciate this - 20/10/2017 09:07:39 PM 772 Views
Interesting.....wisdom from on high.... - 20/10/2017 09:58:36 PM 692 Views
damn it *NM* - 20/10/2017 09:07:39 PM 405 Views
I think a lot of us are thinking about trigger warnings differently. - 21/10/2017 07:07:01 AM 767 Views
Maybe, maybe not... - 23/10/2017 05:18:16 PM 677 Views
Glad you enjoyed it and that it provoked thought. - 23/10/2017 02:32:57 PM 751 Views
I see this as... - 23/10/2017 05:23:54 PM 734 Views
I kind of break them down into two types - 22/10/2017 03:25:04 AM 814 Views
I wonder how much the fall of communism has to do with this? - 24/10/2017 10:20:16 PM 777 Views
Definitely more than a bit. - 25/10/2017 12:51:55 PM 707 Views

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