With academic psychology and allied disciplines that study human behavior dominated by people who share your (and my) cultural outlook, why isn’t there a sort of expert plan for cultural transformation, e.g. on guns? Is it that all the best people at doing practical psychological operations go work for advertising firms, the CIA, or some other institution that’s part of an antagonistic culture? I mean, it doesn’t even seem like there’s any effective infiltration of the online forums where some of the nuttier cultural elements thrive. Are the psychological techniques that are known to work also things that people in our culture would really prefer to believe didn’t work?
As happens all too often in this argument, Tim, you miss one of the major issues of gun violence in this culture: Guns’ use in domestic homicides. Women living in a house with guns present are more in danger of being killed in a domestic dispute than they are anywhere else. (Yes, even if the same women think themselves safer because of the guns that may be turned on them by their partners.) I’m far less concerned with male suicide rates than I am with the rates they pick up those guns and slaughter vulnerable members of their households, often before killing themselves.
With academic psychology and allied disciplines that study human behavior dominated by people who share your (and my) cultural outlook, why isn’t there a sort of expert plan for cultural transformation, e.g. on guns? Is it that all the best people at doing practical psychological operations go work for advertising firms, the CIA, or some other institution that’s part of an antagonistic culture? I mean, it doesn’t even seem like there’s any effective infiltration of the online forums where some of the nuttier cultural elements thrive. Are the psychological techniques that are known to work also things that people in our culture would really prefer to believe didn’t work?
As happens all too often in this argument, Tim, you miss one of the major issues of gun violence in this culture: Guns’ use in domestic homicides. Women living in a house with guns present are more in danger of being killed in a domestic dispute than they are anywhere else. (Yes, even if the same women think themselves safer because of the guns that may be turned on them by their partners.) I’m far less concerned with male suicide rates than I am with the rates they pick up those guns and slaughter vulnerable members of their households, often before killing themselves.