IMO the problem is that you need a special personality to become anti-establishment in the first place.
Some people are just contrarians and enjoy pissing people off. These don't really have any allegiance at all to the movement and can turn on a dime. Think about what political movements were alive in the 70s/80s, and basically the only thing these gen Xers could rebel against was right wing politics (aesthetically ofc, they never actually DID anything).
Some people are independent/critical thinkers and arrive at the correct conclusion. (I know it sounds cringe Iamverysmart w/e)
Also, anti-establishment means different things in different places. Anti-establishment in the US =/= anti-establishment in China, because globally the US literally IS the establishment.
People who are capable of recognizing reality, and who are comfortable with ambiguity until doing their own research, and doing said research in a relatively unbiased way, are IMO an extremely small subset of the population. Maybe 5%, idk
Also aging does things to the brain. I think that most men are logical vegetables after the age of 50 or so. Also people are aging faster than they used to.
This is a huge determining factor, IMO. If someone can't mature past that they transition to reactionary nitwit. How can we normalize getting comfortable with being uncomfortable?
How can we normalize getting comfortable with being uncomfortable?
IMO you can't. I suspect that Ambiguity is a resource intensive mental state. It takes more energy to think "X could be 4, or 6" than to think "X is 2"
Likewise it takes more energy to give people the benefit of the doubt (ambiguity) than assume things that have no basis in reality.
IMO the problem is that you need a special personality to become anti-establishment in the first place.
Some people are just contrarians and enjoy pissing people off. These don't really have any allegiance at all to the movement and can turn on a dime. Think about what political movements were alive in the 70s/80s, and basically the only thing these gen Xers could rebel against was right wing politics (aesthetically ofc, they never actually DID anything).
Some people are independent/critical thinkers and arrive at the correct conclusion. (I know it sounds cringe Iamverysmart w/e)
Also, anti-establishment means different things in different places. Anti-establishment in the US =/= anti-establishment in China, because globally the US literally IS the establishment.
People who are capable of recognizing reality, and who are comfortable with ambiguity until doing their own research, and doing said research in a relatively unbiased way, are IMO an extremely small subset of the population. Maybe 5%, idk
Also aging does things to the brain. I think that most men are logical vegetables after the age of 50 or so. Also people are aging faster than they used to.
This is a huge determining factor, IMO. If someone can't mature past that they transition to reactionary nitwit. How can we normalize getting comfortable with being uncomfortable?
IMO you can't. I suspect that Ambiguity is a resource intensive mental state. It takes more energy to think "X could be 4, or 6" than to think "X is 2"
Likewise it takes more energy to give people the benefit of the doubt (ambiguity) than assume things that have no basis in reality.
It's also why the medical system is fucked
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