Sunday, January 28, 2024

"Our Values Tend to Cluster Around Certain Poles, Described as 'Intrinsic' and 'Extrinsic'"

"When a society valorises status, money, power and dominance, it is bound to generate frustration. It is mathematically impossible for everyone to be number one. The more the economic elites grab, the more everyone else must lose. Someone must be blamed for the ensuing disappointment. In a culture that worships winners, it can't be them. It must be those evil people pursuing a kinder world, in which wealth is distributed, no one is forgotten and communities and the living planet are protected. Those who have developed a strong set of extrinsic values will vote for the person who represents them, the person who has what they want. Trump. And where the US goes, the rest of us follow."

George Monbiot at The Guardian calls Donald Trump "a walking, talking monument to extrinsic values."

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