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{{a|work|{{image|serious people|gif|You know it.}} }}{{quote| | {{a|work|{{image|serious people|gif|You know it.}} }}{{quote|“I love you, but you are not serious people.” | ||
:—Logan Roy, ''Succession''.}}As we approach the tenth anniversary of the [[great delamination]], it seems, quietly, that the epic shortage of “serious people” that characterised its first decade seems — somewhat? — to be fading out. | |||
The ''appearance'' of endemic unseriousness may have just been the process of the [[JC]] aging, reaching age-parity with the sorts of people who get to run the world, and realising they were — well, jerks, mainly — but it feels a bit more significant than that. | The ''appearance'' of endemic unseriousness may have just been the process of the [[JC]] aging, reaching age-parity with the sorts of people who get to run the world, and realising they were — well, jerks, mainly — but it feels a bit more significant than that. | ||
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===Feeding the clowns=== | ===Feeding the clowns=== | ||
The public intellectuals and commentariat seems to have no idea how to deal with the clowns and trolls who litter the public | The public intellectuals and commentariat seems to have no idea how to deal with the clowns and trolls, serious or not, who litter the public square. This, too, feels like a ''lack of seriousness''. Serious people display a natural sobriety, tolerance and, frankly, respect — even though gritted teeth — for ideas and people not to their taste. Serious people rise above it. Serious people ''don’t feed the trolls''. | ||
This new righteousness which | This new righteousness which has infected we of the Metropolitan liberal elite (paid-up member, fear not) comes with a blind spot: we cannot help ourselves reacting to and trying to ''correct'' those who we find [[problematic]], as if a final righteous blow from our trusty liberal sword will forever put them straight about their deplorable utterings. But — irony, right? — this moral certitude presents as a kind of ''mansplaining''. | ||
Liberals disproportionately struggle to understand conservatives. If you can’t understand something, you can’t respect it. | |||
{{Quote|[W]e tested how well liberals and conservatives could understand each other. We asked more than two thousand American visitors to fill out the Moral Foundations Questionnaire. One-third of the time they were asked to fill it out normally, answering as themselves. One-third of the time they were asked to fill it out as they think a “typical liberal” would respond. One-third of the time they were asked to fill it out as a “typical conservative” would respond. [...] | |||
The results were clear and consistent. Moderates and conservatives were most accurate in their predictions, whether they were pretending to be liberals or conservatives. Liberals were the least accurate, especially those who described themselves as “very liberal.” | |||
:—{{author|Jonathan Haidt}}, {{br|The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion}}}} | |||
We should attribute the implausible continued presence of trolls like Trump, Johnson and farage in parts to their uncanny neck for media but in equal parts for our own inability to stop ourselves rising to their bait. | We should attribute the implausible continued presence of trolls like Trump, Johnson and farage in parts to their uncanny neck for media but in equal parts for our own inability to stop ourselves rising to their bait. | ||