The "science" of psychology should use a less value laden term than neuroticism. People with relatively high sensitivity to potential threats are sometimes more accurate than their more blase counterparts.
Research with several representative samples from the US and the Netherlands shows that more neurotic people want more social welfare and redistribution. Specifically, "anxious" neurotics want this. There are also "volatile" neurotics who get angered easily but this has little to do with welfare.
Politics is a means by which people organize and manage their hatreds, which are projected into political adversaries in order to legitimize the hatred. The problem is malice and what to do with it, and it is less painful to have it outside the head than inside. More often than not, ideology is just a public neurosis. It becomes a kind of addiction, because political neurotics don't acknowledge the implicit pleasure they derive from the exercise. I know this because I blogged about the subject for a couple decades, either in order to assuage my political neurosis or because I am correct.
Today's politics have become increasingly neurotic because operators of the partisan machines know that fear, anger, and sadness are what drives people to the polls. And I suspect the abuse of these scare tactics have had a profoundly negative impact on the psychological well being of younger generations.
Oh boy, do I agree with this statement! My husband and I are out of the ordinary - I am extremely low in neuroticism, whereas my husband is extremely high. He is obsessed with politics, and turning everything into a doomsday scenario through rumination, whereas I just do not allow myself to be brought down by things outside of my control. Certainly I read the news and all that, but I just roll my eyes and move on. All of this to say, I really wish he would come to the realization that he is making the choice to be angry all the time, and basically causing his own misery.
You aren't accepting and curious toward the neurotic? Is there absolutely nothing they can say that can make you neurotic too?
I hope not. Or, ideally, anyone who is not already neurotic. (Which I hope and trust includes myself.)
I would like to add the same with the word "do" in place of "say." However, looking at the relatively few survivors of anti-market people's vast crimes (the Holocaust for prime example, but not it alone by any means), evidently some things neurotic people can do tend to make the survivors neurotic.
The "science" of psychology should use a less value laden term than neuroticism. People with relatively high sensitivity to potential threats are sometimes more accurate than their more blase counterparts.
Research with several representative samples from the US and the Netherlands shows that more neurotic people want more social welfare and redistribution. Specifically, "anxious" neurotics want this. There are also "volatile" neurotics who get angered easily but this has little to do with welfare.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/why-anxious-people-lean-to-the-left-on-economic-policy-personality-social-exclusion-and-redistribution/37261F4F36E46FFCD705406028C495D2
Politics is a means by which people organize and manage their hatreds, which are projected into political adversaries in order to legitimize the hatred. The problem is malice and what to do with it, and it is less painful to have it outside the head than inside. More often than not, ideology is just a public neurosis. It becomes a kind of addiction, because political neurotics don't acknowledge the implicit pleasure they derive from the exercise. I know this because I blogged about the subject for a couple decades, either in order to assuage my political neurosis or because I am correct.
Today's politics have become increasingly neurotic because operators of the partisan machines know that fear, anger, and sadness are what drives people to the polls. And I suspect the abuse of these scare tactics have had a profoundly negative impact on the psychological well being of younger generations.
What author, Ed of War and Peace you reading?
Oh boy, do I agree with this statement! My husband and I are out of the ordinary - I am extremely low in neuroticism, whereas my husband is extremely high. He is obsessed with politics, and turning everything into a doomsday scenario through rumination, whereas I just do not allow myself to be brought down by things outside of my control. Certainly I read the news and all that, but I just roll my eyes and move on. All of this to say, I really wish he would come to the realization that he is making the choice to be angry all the time, and basically causing his own misery.
You aren't accepting and curious toward the neurotic? Is there absolutely nothing they can say that can make you neurotic too?
I hope not. Or, ideally, anyone who is not already neurotic. (Which I hope and trust includes myself.)
I would like to add the same with the word "do" in place of "say." However, looking at the relatively few survivors of anti-market people's vast crimes (the Holocaust for prime example, but not it alone by any means), evidently some things neurotic people can do tend to make the survivors neurotic.