The Politics of Humiliation | Richard A. Greenwald
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The Politics of Humiliation | Richard A. Greenwald
But as important as material self-interest is, human beings are motivated by other things as well, motives that better explain the disparate events of the present. This might be called the politics of resentment. In a wide variety of cases, a political leader has mobilized followers around the perception that the group's dignity had been affronted,
... See moreArlie Russell Hochschild in her 2024 book, Stolen Pride. The left-behind find themselves trapped in what she calls “a pride paradox,” a bootstrap mentality where they tend to blame themselves rather than the corporations and government laissez-faire that left them high and dry. “Doubly blocked, they become vulnerable to structural shame,” and more
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