This week: why we love to moralise, how clever teams make stupid decisions, and Sigmund Freud's advice on public speaking. MORAL GRANDSTANDING Barack Obama's gentle critique of call-out culture" - that is, the tendency among progressive activists to divide people in good and bad, sinners and saved - is only notable because it needs saying. It should be obvious that democracy survives only if we accept that people can be very different from us, with very different views, and still be worthy of some minimal level of respect. But it's simpler and less tiring to dismiss people as stupid or repellent; to dump them in the basket of deplorables. Not just simpler, but pleasurable. We get our sense of self-worth affirmed when we condemn others, and some people get a dominance kick out of it too. A team of researchers has named the phenomenon
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
This week: why we love to moralise, how clever teams make stupid decisions, and Sigmund Freud's advice on public speaking. MORAL GRANDSTANDING Barack Obama's gentle critique of call-out culture" - that is, the tendency among progressive activists to divide people in good and bad, sinners and saved - is only notable because it needs saying. It should be obvious that democracy survives only if we accept that people can be very different from us, with very different views, and still be worthy of some minimal level of respect. But it's simpler and less tiring to dismiss people as stupid or repellent; to dump them in the basket of deplorables. Not just simpler, but pleasurable. We get our sense of self-worth affirmed when we condemn others, and some people get a dominance kick out of it too. A team of researchers has named the phenomenon