We like to laugh but that’s basically still how modern politics works. “This thing happened so the leader/president/etc is/are weak!”
“I felt less scared/had more money etc. under this other leader so the current one must not be as good…”
Say what you want about religion and superstition, but I will give that at least those people made some sort of effort to reconcile that they were acting on animal instinct or without logic and created reasons to justify their nonsense. Somehow that feels far less lazy than the present day- “I’m angry and I don’t know why so I’ll blame this guy.” Or the “I’m unhappy and confused so I’ll just follow along with some random stranger who spouts conspiracies and nonsense so that I have something to believe in.” I guess at least the modern conspiracy theorist at least put some degree of effort or cribs off someone else’s. A modern “mandate of heaven.”
In short- weak people always look for someone else to blame and there are a lot of weak people. Wether you make up stories about politicians and companies or you invent gods and spirits it shows a level of desperation to run from the reality of things and put forth self effort to better yourself and the world.
Perhaps it is a hood sign though that maybe this is a step on the social path to ridding the blame game as it gets closer to home- moving away from otherworldly spirits to blaming politicians, perhaps in time blaming neighbors will become blaming family and then finally looking at ourselves on a wide reaching societal level. Maybe.
“I felt less scared/had more money etc. under this other leader so the current one must not be as good…”
Say what you want about religion and superstition, but I will give that at least those people made some sort of effort to reconcile that they were acting on animal instinct or without logic and created reasons to justify their nonsense. Somehow that feels far less lazy than the present day- “I’m angry and I don’t know why so I’ll blame this guy.” Or the “I’m unhappy and confused so I’ll just follow along with some random stranger who spouts conspiracies and nonsense so that I have something to believe in.” I guess at least the modern conspiracy theorist at least put some degree of effort or cribs off someone else’s. A modern “mandate of heaven.”
Perhaps it is a hood sign though that maybe this is a step on the social path to ridding the blame game as it gets closer to home- moving away from otherworldly spirits to blaming politicians, perhaps in time blaming neighbors will become blaming family and then finally looking at ourselves on a wide reaching societal level. Maybe.