I suspect smart and/or intellectual people tend to attribute overly lofty motives and drives to behaviors favored by average people.
“Working out the rage of a narcissistic wound” applies to far fewer people than “just want to punch someone and get another beer”
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They often are in practice though they needn’t be in principle
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A baseball player can’t describe the algorithm that makes him great at catching a ball. But that algorithm exists all the same, and there are researchers who can explain that algorithm and maybe even use it to teach a robot to do it. So...
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Except we’re not comparing only behaviors, but presence/absence of certain volitional attitudes and conscious intentions. Some people do actively think about “I’ll show them” or “I need a life purpose” and others not so much.
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I find myself thinking of 's description of the distinction between book-reading kids and playground kids
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“Economic anxiety” as the basic motivator for xenophobia and racism — dig a little deeper and most people are just explicitly attracted to raw in / out-group dichotomies




