Re: Quiz: Do you live in a bubble (elitist)
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2018 4:18 pm
It's easy to get isolated in a bubble. I would say it's part of human nature give our in-group vs out-group nature.
For most it's something you need to actively fight and from what I can tell most don't even want to fight it as it feels so much better to be part of the in-group to them. Fighting it involves actively adding friction to your social life. You can't just believe you and your friends/relatives are right and those that disagree with you/them are automatically wrong. However if you do choose to actively fight these biases you will have a good chance of either isolating yourself if you don't voice this to those in your in-group or them isolating you from them if you do voice them too much. As ostracisation has frequently been used as an extreme form of punishment in the past this can be extremely painful to those going through it and is thus avoided.
Evolutionarily speaking doing anything you can to avoid ostracisation would have been evolutionarily selected for as those ostracised from the tribe would likely be dead. So trying to fit in with your in-group is imperative for most and they will bend their morals if it will assist in this.
This is how you get rich people spouting off progressive talking points, yet often living their lives in ways very opposed to what they are saying. They need to say these things to remain part of their in-group, but they also need to behave in a different way to remain too. And if you call them out on it their cognitive dissonance can make them very uncomfortable and rather than introspect they will likely blame you for their discomfort.
For most it's something you need to actively fight and from what I can tell most don't even want to fight it as it feels so much better to be part of the in-group to them. Fighting it involves actively adding friction to your social life. You can't just believe you and your friends/relatives are right and those that disagree with you/them are automatically wrong. However if you do choose to actively fight these biases you will have a good chance of either isolating yourself if you don't voice this to those in your in-group or them isolating you from them if you do voice them too much. As ostracisation has frequently been used as an extreme form of punishment in the past this can be extremely painful to those going through it and is thus avoided.
Evolutionarily speaking doing anything you can to avoid ostracisation would have been evolutionarily selected for as those ostracised from the tribe would likely be dead. So trying to fit in with your in-group is imperative for most and they will bend their morals if it will assist in this.
This is how you get rich people spouting off progressive talking points, yet often living their lives in ways very opposed to what they are saying. They need to say these things to remain part of their in-group, but they also need to behave in a different way to remain too. And if you call them out on it their cognitive dissonance can make them very uncomfortable and rather than introspect they will likely blame you for their discomfort.