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A review by cmjustice
Change: How to Make Big Things Happen by Damon Centola
4.0
Useful tools for fomenting. Unpacking the existing pattern of propaganda, manipulation and directed studies all evolving and leading us toward a number of possibilities.
pg 168
The social power of a witch hunt comes from the fact that the only way for citizens to protect themselves is to conceal their distaste for the ascendant social norm. The result is that people lose the ability to read each others minds. Their best guesses about what they should expect from others, and what others will expect of them, becomes based on the shared illusion that everyone supports the norm. The more people conceal what they truly believe, the more reason everyone has to enforce the social norm for fear of being seen as deviant.
pg 168
The social power of a witch hunt comes from the fact that the only way for citizens to protect themselves is to conceal their distaste for the ascendant social norm. The result is that people lose the ability to read each others minds. Their best guesses about what they should expect from others, and what others will expect of them, becomes based on the shared illusion that everyone supports the norm. The more people conceal what they truly believe, the more reason everyone has to enforce the social norm for fear of being seen as deviant.