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Thinking about “civicmindedness”:
thinking and acting beyond your private life and work. Protesting, volunteering, participating in local politics, etc.
How some people have it and others don’t. How our whole Western individualist value system (more so now than even 30 years ago) works to erode it, but how important it actually is, in a deep, psychological way even. We are all part of communities and need to feel it.
(feeling local election U-turn! #GreenParty)
@pvonhellermannn I often think about 'resistance subjectivity' - what is it in people's live and experiences that makes some prepared to take a stand where others don't
@danmcquillan @pvonhellermannn Isn't there some psychological research on this?
Counter-terrorism/insurgency military manuals must be full of how to prevent people from being activated.
@forse @pvonhellermannn I like that way if flipping things! I'm not sure pacification and activition are symmetric opposites though. Perhaps pacification is more of a mass phenomena and activiation is (like @pvonhellermannn was saying) more of a conjuction of circumstances?
@danmcquillan @pvonhellermannn
I would be fascinated to hear your thoughts on this, because I have observed the same dichotomy but I haven't spent the same amount of time thinking about commonalities.
@passenger @pvonhellermannn reading a lot about resistance under fascism in WW2 suggests to me it's hard to tell - some people just cave (a bit like 'critical' academics in the face of AI!) and other people who you wouldn't necessarily expect turn out to have real backbone.
