Awareness of pluralistic ignorance
Yasuhide Ono
"Humankind: A History of Hope" Volumes 1 and 2 were the most interesting books I've read this year, so I'll be writing about them first.
The book by Rutger Bregman, a young Dutch journalist, leaves you with a feeling of exhilaration after reading it.
"The essence of human beings is good." This book analyzes this idea from a wide range of angles, based on evidence from the perspectives of human history, psychology, intellectual history, and economic history.
It was as if my foggy vision had suddenly cleared. Why is modern society designed based on the idea that humans are evil?
This book examines the psychology and anthropology behind dark ideas such as Hobbes' "war of all against all," Darwin's "natural selection," Dawkins' "the selfish gene," and Adam Smith's "homo economicus," and gathers evidence to arrive at surprising conclusions.
If everyone reads this book as a textbook for humanity, I think it will be the key to clearing up all kinds of misunderstandings.
The placebo effect causes positive outcomes and the nocebo effect causes negative outcomes
If you believe in something strongly enough, it can become a reality
As a result, people become what they think.
If you accept things honestly, you will grow up to be honest, but if you accept things with a critical eye, you will grow up with a critical eye.
Even though no one is trying to bring you down, do you ever find yourself thinking negatively and interpreting things in a negative way in your own delusions?
If something goes wrong and spins its wheels, it will lead to misunderstandings due to differences in interpretation.
When studying Western thought, why do we think of humans as villains?
I wondered if it was designed based on a dark view of humanity.
To borrow a bit from the article
A new drug hits the market. It's highly addictive, and everyone quickly becomes addicted. Scientists study it and determine that it "causes false risk perception, anxiety, low mood, helplessness, contempt and hostility toward others, and emotional numbness." Would we use this drug? Would we allow our children to take it? The answer is yes, because it has already caused one of the biggest addictions of our time. The drug we take every day, that is heavily subsidized and distributed to children in large quantities, is the news. I grew up being taught that news makes the mind grow. I was taught that reading the newspaper and watching the evening news was a civic duty, that the more we follow the news, the more informed we are, and the healthier our democracy will be. Even today, parents still teach this to their children. But scientists have come to a different conclusion: "News is dangerous to mental health." Mean World Syndrome This is when repeated exposure to violent content in the mass media leads people to believe that the world is more dangerous than it actually is. Symptoms include cynicism, misanthropy, and pessimism. As a result, people who follow the news tend to agree with the statement that "most people only think about themselves." They also tend to think that individuals are powerless and cannot make the world a better place. They also tend to be highly stressed and depressed. Even a brief quote from the first chapter is enough to turn your head. "We are not rational enough to watch the news." "News is to the mind what sugar is to the body." Delving into these issues, the book unravels the truth of the Nobel Prize-winning novel "Lord of the Flies," as well as the lies about war and the barbarism of indigenous peoples. It also makes you think about the blind spots that arise from empathy. The background to the birth of the Nazis and the background to the Holocaust. It all comes from pluralistic ignorance. "A state in which no one believes, but everyone believes that 'everyone believes.'" This is the state of the people who praised the Emperor's New Clothes.
The genius of Bregman's hypothesis here is that he asks, "Is it possible that negative views of human nature are a form of pluralistic ignorance? Perhaps the idea that most people are selfish and greedy stems from an assumption that other people must think the same way?"
If that is the case, we can look at the bright side and realize that it is possible to "envision the best people, not the worst people."
This book is a practical and hopeful theory of human goodness that is full of bright futures.
So it's time to wake up the kids.
It's not really something to spin.
It was so interesting that it overturned what I had been planning to write for a long time.
It hasn't even been a month since it was released, so it's probably in the new releases section.
If the person recommending it recommends something useless, they will only lose credibility, so this is really good and I wholeheartedly recommend it.