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A review by zdkb24
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
5.0
Much of the rightwing ideology investigated here didn't come as too much of a surprise, although I really appreciated the way that Hochschild meticulously unpacked the backgrounds and thinking processes of her subjects.
The one aspect that did blow my mind were the points-of-view regarding what to do about environmental threats. The people that Hochschild interviewed were certainly not happy about the pollution that they lived with it, but at the same time, as the author argued persuasively, seemed to find significant self-worth in putting up with it. This is totally polar to the liberal notion, to which I subscribe, that you would best defend your self-worth by fighting against polluting companies and electing representatives who would force them to abide by regulations and to clean up their messes. The hugeness of this difference in thinking is confounding.
The one aspect that did blow my mind were the points-of-view regarding what to do about environmental threats. The people that Hochschild interviewed were certainly not happy about the pollution that they lived with it, but at the same time, as the author argued persuasively, seemed to find significant self-worth in putting up with it. This is totally polar to the liberal notion, to which I subscribe, that you would best defend your self-worth by fighting against polluting companies and electing representatives who would force them to abide by regulations and to clean up their messes. The hugeness of this difference in thinking is confounding.