The Cabin in the Woods Problem. An attempt to explain the apathy of the centre right.
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TomDixon
 November 13 2023
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    As the world becomes ever more dystopian why do so many of us sit on our hands? Western governments, media and institutions have changed dramatically over recent years, likely not for the better. The majority of us don’t appear to care. Why? Maybe you do care, perhaps I’ve put your back up already? Perhaps you have taken the red pill and unplugged yourself from the faux reality of modern life and struck back. But what have you actually done? Shared some memes? Posted a pithy tweet aimed at some haloed celebrity in the hope that it makes them think? It didn’t though did it? You may be one step closer to enlightenment than the majority of us centrist dads who have done precisely nothing, but thats one small step on a towering staircase at the top of which is something that few of us can envisage. Myself included.

    Why have we done nothing? I have a theory that the answer likes in our immutable characteristics, our personality traits. Those on the political right, the small ‘c’ conservatives, tend to be higher in trait conscientiousness, those on the left lower on that metric. These traits impact our decision making and how we lead our lives. Conscientiousness matters, it’s what gets things done, it’s why the light comes on when you flick the switch. It’s also boring, and thats why we’re not particularly interested in conscientious people. Openness on then other hand.. Open people are the life and soul, they make us laugh, they make us cry, their chaotic lives are fascinating to us. They aren’t very good at keeping the lights on though. We need all types of personality to have a successful society, the open types have more ideas, they drive change, and sometimes change is good. Without change we’d still be living in caves. It’s almost as though we were designed this way. Just as the ants in a colony have evolved to be workers, nurses and soldiers so have we evolved with individual traits that when blended together in just the right proportions drive our species forward. Mankind is more complicated than ant-kind though, sometimes things go wrong, sometimes ideas take hold of us and drive us to destroy what we have built. It has happened before and will happen again. Is it happening now? I suspect many of us have pondered this question and whilst some have come to the conclusion that we are staring into the pit, many more appear to have concluded ‘meh’. 

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    https://open.substack.com/pub/dixont/p/the-cabin-in-the-woods-problem?r=1ecai1&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post 

     

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