A famous study showed that once we are instructed to regard perfectly healthy people as insane, we will do so despite consistent evidence that they are perfectly normal.[1]
This works for other things, too. Once inclined by influence or experience to view some people as stingy or rich or lazy, that's exactly how we'll view others that match the same general description (nationality, color, neighborhood, language, etc).
Take that into account the next time you cast a filtered light on a coworker, neighbor, or the person next to you in the pew. ("She dresses so beautifully. She manages to find the most beautiful bargains with what little they have.")
Your opinions are infectious.
Good ones, too.
[2013-06-12]
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Just as wars are mostly fought by kids who have an undeveloped sense of mortality, so those who trade in irreverence, violence, and lewdness have no scars yet from long-term exposure to those things.
By the time they're old enough and the excitement has soured or they've become exhausted by saturation, a new crop of kids are lapping at their feet and it's then about money and habituation rather than excitement.
The result is not only a generation inured to violence and dehumanization, but a generation unable to express themselves above the level of a realty show spat.
Indeed, unable to read this post and understand what I just said.
[2013-06-11]
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[1]
"The Rosenhan experiment was a famous experiment done in order to determine the validity of psychiatric diagnosis, conducted by psychologist David Rosenhan and published by the journal Science in 1973 under the title "On being sane in insane places". The study is considered an important and influential criticism of psychiatric diagnosis. Source >
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