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RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@Lapizistik/116934331798506460
Und nochmal „wir gegen die“ bzw ingroup/outgroup: wenn „einer von uns“ etwas schlimmes/böses tut, dann ist das ein Einzelfall, muß man differenziert sehen und eigentlich hat der vielleicht gar…

Klimapolitik wird¹ als Kulturkampf inszeniert.
Das heißt auch, die Lösung eines² Sachproblems ist in diesem Diskurs nachrangig.
Solang wir das nicht verstehen, glauben in der Sache argumentieren zu können, rennen wir gegen eine Gummiwand. Wir brauchen Strategien, das Framing als kulturelle Frage³ aufzubrechen. Solange es ein Ingroup/Outgroup, d.h. „wir“ gegen „die“ bleibt, können Sachargumente nur wirken, wenn sie diese Grenze unterlaufen. Erst wenn die Wärmepumpe nicht mehr Symb…

I read Naomi Klein's "Doppelganger", mostly by the pool or the beach while on holiday last week.
It isn't really about her being confused with Naomi Wolf, except on a surface level. Or even really about Wolf moving from left feminism towards right wing conspiracy theory.
Really it's about how political culture has changed as the world has moved more online and suffered the consequences of a pandemic and the often wrongheaded political responses to that.
Conspiracy thinking and a whole culture concentrating on reticence and reactionary thinking instead of evidence and logic.
While reading it I was hanging out with some folks who are much more right wing than I generally do. Here's some things they said:
I don't believe in Sunscreen. Isn't it funny how skin cancer rates have gone up as sunscreen becomes more popular.
I don't believe in COVID.
Carbon Warming models don't even take into account the sun.
I thought Chemtrails were a conspiracy theory, but came to believe it.
Claiming to believe in freedom while also wanting a crack-down on asylum-seekers, thinking they are destroying society.
So it's easy to believe Klein's basic thesis here, the worry that reactionary conspiracy thinking is breaking the entire body politic.
I don't think it's that people have lost all rationality. It's that people are wearing their conspiracy theories as badges, identifying them as a member of a group. Like religious beliefs that bind a group, the more stupid and outrageous they are the more those badges work to identify the ingroup from the outgroup.
The worry is always when they decide the outgroup need punishing for not taking on those conspiracy beliefs and turn to suppression and violence.
#reading #books #worldPol

- But there •are• real requirements
- usually unstated
- that often even the interviewers doing the hiring aren’t aware they’re applying
- and they’re frequently social / shibboleth / ingroup / identity requirements
- specifically sexist, agist, and racist
- but also internal company churn / fomo / turf war stuff
- all of which has nothing to do with your worth as a human being
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