Tag: society
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With respect to the dead… [The Coronavirus Sweden example]
Coronavirus crisis has helped in revealing the true nature of people and of states. Crises of such proportions do have the tendency of doing so. Within the crisis people feared death, people laughed at death, people showed ignorance of epic proportions for basic scientific facts, others just chose to worry about everything while some of…
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Against Trump (but everyone else too). Why politics is dead.
The recent coronavirus crisis revealed many things which remained safely hidden under the comfort of our everyday routine. As usual, a crisis of such proportions exposes the real self of men (and women). And what emerged from those ICU beds, the agony, the fear, the irony and the disbelief (of those who do not believe…
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The power of minorities. Modern society. Interlinked.
A study finds that when 25 percent of people in a group adopt a new social norm, it creates a tipping point where the entire group follows suit. This shows the direct causal effect of the size of a committed minority on its capacity to create social change. (1) Even the 1 can change the…
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The greatest dead-end of democracy (is democracy itself)
The situation in the UK is a big mess. The people decided something democratically via referendum. Others are democratically protesting. To implement this decision, the prime minister closes the House by applying a democratic process (yes, democracy there gave him this right) so that others do not democratically pass laws that impede the implementation of…
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Ostracism. Society. Genuine humans.
Ostracism or social exclusion within a group serves to discipline disagreeable, awkward, or free-loading members and thus promote cooperation – at least this was the assumption of previous research in this field. However, ostracism also develops in situations in which there is no need to discipline the behaviors of others, and the victims often seem…
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