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Why social change is so excruciatingly difficult

Why social change is so excruciatingly difficult

Volts

October 24, 20221h 19m

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Show Notes

When we look across the broad sweep of human history, what needs explaining is not times of rebellion and upheaval, but the much more common periods of unjust rule facing little resistance. Why do people so often internalize the ideologies upholding systems under which they suffer? Why do they fail to fight back? Psychologist John Jost has an answer. I talked it over with him.



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