Thank-you. I've read other articles proposing patience over head-butting, but the ju-jitsu metaphor is the best. My understanding is say, instead of banging heads with people, try rather to start with validation. For instance that you've often shared the same feelings (eg. about big-government, big-pharma, snotty academia)? Many of my fa…
Thank-you. I've read other articles proposing patience over head-butting, but the ju-jitsu metaphor is the best. My understanding is say, instead of banging heads with people, try rather to start with validation. For instance that you've often shared the same feelings (eg. about big-government, big-pharma, snotty academia)? Many of my family members are just naturally oppositional and aggressive, so their positions were always predictable. Do you think individual's resilience to absorb massive life upheaval might also be a predictor? We were all so complacent. When covid arrived, some people rolled up their sleeves and got into "Can-do" mode. Others were so shocked, they dug in their heels of denial and clung to conspiracy theories of "covid was created to reduce the population", or "big-pharma came up with covid to make money", etc. Virologists and those who study these things admit we dodged a bullet with this pandemic because it could have been so much more deadly. So my concern with the anti-vax movement is more about the future than now.
Agreed. There's some good research out there that suggests people are really prone to quick decision-making when a major new variable gets introduced. So some people saw the pandemic and thought "big events like this don't just *happened.*" The Queensland researchers actually deal with this: The point to many climate change deniers as being victims of the 'just world fallacy.' That is, people think "humanity is good, therefore the world wouldn't do this to us." Ditto for COVID. The more horrible things that happened over those years — not being able to visit loved ones in hospital, losing friends to suicide, going back into lock down — pushed more and more people to think "there's no way things would be this bad if not for [X]" It's a trauma response.
Thank-you. I've read other articles proposing patience over head-butting, but the ju-jitsu metaphor is the best. My understanding is say, instead of banging heads with people, try rather to start with validation. For instance that you've often shared the same feelings (eg. about big-government, big-pharma, snotty academia)? Many of my family members are just naturally oppositional and aggressive, so their positions were always predictable. Do you think individual's resilience to absorb massive life upheaval might also be a predictor? We were all so complacent. When covid arrived, some people rolled up their sleeves and got into "Can-do" mode. Others were so shocked, they dug in their heels of denial and clung to conspiracy theories of "covid was created to reduce the population", or "big-pharma came up with covid to make money", etc. Virologists and those who study these things admit we dodged a bullet with this pandemic because it could have been so much more deadly. So my concern with the anti-vax movement is more about the future than now.
Agreed. There's some good research out there that suggests people are really prone to quick decision-making when a major new variable gets introduced. So some people saw the pandemic and thought "big events like this don't just *happened.*" The Queensland researchers actually deal with this: The point to many climate change deniers as being victims of the 'just world fallacy.' That is, people think "humanity is good, therefore the world wouldn't do this to us." Ditto for COVID. The more horrible things that happened over those years — not being able to visit loved ones in hospital, losing friends to suicide, going back into lock down — pushed more and more people to think "there's no way things would be this bad if not for [X]" It's a trauma response.