Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

CURT: Q:”WHAT DOES THE MEDIA GAIN AND WHY ARE THEY ENCOURAGING DIVISION?”

Well, this is a great opportunity to explain. 😉

A well known phenomenon: as the scarcity of attention increases, the utility of provoking moral outrage increases, because humans demonstrate altruistic punishment, which is the one behavior that will cause us high enough activation that we will pay otherwise irrational costs to punish those that morally offend us.

So given that sex differences in perception, cognition, valuation, and activation are the origin of all human differences, and given that these sex differences are short-term, in-time, empathizing vs long-term, over time, systematizing, these sex differences are eternally in competition.

Few of us are purely male or female in sexual biases, but we tend to be stereotypes (there is a 20-30% gradual overlap), the feminine (admixture) favors the caretaking and equality bias to an extreme while the masculine (admixture) favors reciprocity, proportionality, loyalty, hierarchy, and purity equally, that means there is ALWAYS a subject matter on EVERY issue that can be framed in a way that violates the moral intuition of both sides causing moral outrage, and willingness to engage in altruistic (costly) punishment (aggression, conflict, warfare) against the opposite side of the spectrum.

In other words, (a) they do it for money (b) reporting used to require we practice testimony (c) in the sixties the activist generation took over journalism and the academy and converted from testimony to activism. (d) this combination. of converting to activism, increase in competition, decline in revenues, and panic for eyeballs, has combined to serve the marxist-neoMarxist-pomo-anti-family feminist-woke sequence of ‘religions’ and gradually undermine civil society, and fulfill the left’s ambitions of ‘marching through and destroying the western institutions of cultural production’, just as they stated they world.

Conservatives on the other hand, especially in the USA, are largely anti-intellectual, and treat religion and constitution and the military as sacred institutions (it’s called european Trifuctionalism. Google it. It’s 5000 years old. It’s habit. It’s not going away very easily.). So because conservatism continues this ancient cultural tradition of maximizing individual responsibility and agency (at high personal cost) in order to create high-trust families that can produce high-trust commons (that other civilizations can’t) conservatives have ‘nothing to sell’ and only put up a resistance movement to the left who is selling reduction of those demands for individual responsibility.

So that’s why there is a conflict, and that’s why it’s unresolvable, and that’s why those of us who study these things are certain we end in civil war unless we can find a way to ‘stop the hate’ and find a solution.

I hope that helps.
Cheers
Curt