All politics lies downstream of the psyche of individuals — individual thoughts, decisions, and reactions are the building block of all political behavior.
"All politics lies downstream of the psyche of individuals..."
The ungrammatical omission of the plural in "psyche[s]" is important to note here. There are a few things you should consider if you continue following the lines of this argument. Yes, individual human psyches have their own prerogatives, but: a) human psychology generally has typological features that can be described and organized and that have predictable statistical distributions; and b) human collective psychology has a parallel, but not identical set of structures.
It's a mistake to assume that the patterns you're describing are completely manipulated, though the manipulation needs to be studied and called out. It is similarly unworkable to treat emergent patterns as completely "random" and haphazard. So you really need to start working towards a comprehensive structural theory of political psychology, and this will inform best practice recommendations for specific situations.
Finally, reality will intrude on people's political beliefs, if they don't adhere to what is true and what is not true. It's just that the intrusion is likely to be painful, devastating, deadly. We're fighting not for truth, but to avoid the consequences of truth ignored. Ultimately, this makes the problem that concerns you fundamentally a collective moral issue, rather than an individual political one.
This is so good. Consciousness is a filter and reality is just perception. Democrats truly live in the matrix thinking there's some base reality that drives voter behavior
it’s will❤️
"All politics lies downstream of the psyche of individuals..."
The ungrammatical omission of the plural in "psyche[s]" is important to note here. There are a few things you should consider if you continue following the lines of this argument. Yes, individual human psyches have their own prerogatives, but: a) human psychology generally has typological features that can be described and organized and that have predictable statistical distributions; and b) human collective psychology has a parallel, but not identical set of structures.
It's a mistake to assume that the patterns you're describing are completely manipulated, though the manipulation needs to be studied and called out. It is similarly unworkable to treat emergent patterns as completely "random" and haphazard. So you really need to start working towards a comprehensive structural theory of political psychology, and this will inform best practice recommendations for specific situations.
Finally, reality will intrude on people's political beliefs, if they don't adhere to what is true and what is not true. It's just that the intrusion is likely to be painful, devastating, deadly. We're fighting not for truth, but to avoid the consequences of truth ignored. Ultimately, this makes the problem that concerns you fundamentally a collective moral issue, rather than an individual political one.
I think you may have material for a book here, don’t you agree? The question is, how to publish it to maximum impact?
This is so good. Consciousness is a filter and reality is just perception. Democrats truly live in the matrix thinking there's some base reality that drives voter behavior