The dilemma faced when urging people to move away from group-living is that they feel warm in the pack, and they feel bolstered and powerful due to their superior numbers. That biological and emotional feeling of comfort and supremacy insulates them from reality, from receiving educational messages about the advantages of going it alone on their own.
Their world view is black and white. They feel invincible. Simplistic, shallow, extreme claims and assertions are very appealing to them as they steered and manipulated by their group leaders. They are popular and have a monopoly on social and job promotions as members of the in-control majority. Their smug complacency makes it easy for them to brag that they are perfect as they are, without any need to change anything.
This is their rationale: "Twenty five friends and associates confirm that I am okay and am socially superior to you, Mr. Sad/Grumpy/Whining Loner-Loser. Since I am socially superior to you, it is entailed that I am superior to you, Mr. Malcontent, in all ways.
You are not okay. You are disregarded, discredited and treated with deserved contempt. You are wrong and all wet, because my twenty five friends say so."
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