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There's an interplay between "collective narcissism" & "American Exceptionalism" that creates resistance to learning. Learning requires voluntary intellectual subordination: an admission the "teacher" knows more than you. This triggers our narcissistic sense of exceptionalism..1/ https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1261250777420632064
...because the admission that someone else, or some other country does something better/knows more than us...results in the piercing of the individual narcissistic, collective narcissistic ("in-group"), or national narcissistic ("American Exceptionalism") sense of grandiosity. 2/
The piercing of the individual/collective narcissism not only creates a resistance to learning....but more importantly, it creates hostility to "sources" of learning/information.
This has resulted in the demonization of Science/education/Academia/Expertise/Intellectualism....3/
This has resulted in the demonization of Science/education/Academia/Expertise/Intellectualism....3/
....which has been packaged in an "anti-elite" narrative that implicitly empowers a dumbed-down, narcissistic electorate to believe that they are justified in demonizing Science/Expertise because the have a fundamental right to their ignorance. 4/ https://twitter.com/Nick_Carmody/status/1258011447784697858
Unfortunately, as has been seen repeatedly throughout his presidency, the cult of personality takes it lead from Trump.....which has resulted in a "trickling down" not just of his embrace of ignorance......but of his pathologies.....5/ https://twitter.com/Nick_Carmody/status/1194586898334793730
As explained in this thread, Trump's narcissism is the fundamental driver of his immense ignorance. This has always been a looming, potentially dangerous threat to the country....but the coronavirus has essentially weaponized Trump's ignorance....6/.... https://twitter.com/Nick_Carmody/status/1186381872923729920
A recent thread incorporating previous threads on "Collective Narcissism" and "American Exceptionalism".....and their effects on society: 11/ https://twitter.com/Nick_Carmody/status/1260345039382810624
Just rewrote two recent threads about "collective narcissism", American Exceptionalism, and resistance to learning.....all of which are creating a dangerous politicization of a public health crisis: https://www.patreon.com/posts/37182965
