Naturally Trump won because he reached 270 electoral votes so we are really looking to figure out what's the attraction was or why there's insufficient repulsion to his candidacy. And of course in other threads we will look at policy, messaging, the economy etc. till we are blue in the face.
I think the following analysis of culture in general offers a perspective that provides an analytical framework that make a lot of sense to and which I me and which I want to share.
getpocket.com
The article predicts factors that may work against interest in it so it may only be of interest to those who have an appetite for information as the subject matter is about inner conditions that work against us in that regard:
"An emotional education may require us to adopt two different starting points. For a start, how we are taught may matter inordinately, because we have ingrained tendencies to shut our ears to all the major truths about our deeper selves. Our settled impulse is to blame anyone who lays our blind spots and insufficiencies bare, unless our defenses have first been adroitly and seductively appeased. In the face of critically important insights, we get distracted, proud, or fidgety. We may prefer to do almost anything other than take in information that could save us."
Hope you can overcome such hurdles and consider it.
I think the following analysis of culture in general offers a perspective that provides an analytical framework that make a lot of sense to and which I me and which I want to share.
Alain de Botton on Existential Maturity and What Emotional Intelligence Really Means
“The emotionally intelligent person knows that they will only ever be mentally healthy in a few areas and at certain moments..."
The article predicts factors that may work against interest in it so it may only be of interest to those who have an appetite for information as the subject matter is about inner conditions that work against us in that regard:
"An emotional education may require us to adopt two different starting points. For a start, how we are taught may matter inordinately, because we have ingrained tendencies to shut our ears to all the major truths about our deeper selves. Our settled impulse is to blame anyone who lays our blind spots and insufficiencies bare, unless our defenses have first been adroitly and seductively appeased. In the face of critically important insights, we get distracted, proud, or fidgety. We may prefer to do almost anything other than take in information that could save us."
Hope you can overcome such hurdles and consider it.
