Re:The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners
by ZeroGravitas on Saturday February 04, 2023 @01:10PM
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There's a theory that admitting you have no control over you own life is too scary for most people.
Believing that your local witchdoctor/economist can predict the weather/economy is perhaps stupid. Believing in Karma might be too. But what's the alternative? Accepting you live in an uncaring universe where you have no control and terrible things could happen to good people at any time?
Much more psychologically safe to blame the victim as a way to ward off the thought that you could suffer the same fate.
Believing that your local witchdoctor/economist can predict the weather/economy is perhaps stupid. Believing in Karma might be too. But what's the alternative? Accepting you live in an uncaring universe where you have no control and terrible things could happen to good people at any time?
Much more psychologically safe to blame the victim as a way to ward off the thought that you could suffer the same fate.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis