Conservatives want to signal strength, while liberals want to signal weakness. The problem is that signaling strength *actually makes you happier* and signaling weakness *actually makes you more anxious/depressed*. So it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Sort of a "fake it till you make it" effect.
This isn't just signalling, liberals are smart enough to understand we live in really bad times. Nuclear war is looming, climate change is frying the agriculture, the rich-poor gap is growing, young people can't buy a home, demographics are dropping and so on.
It kinda shocks me how much time and energy we've all wasted trying to convince each other of mostly unimportant political ideas.
What political perspective you hold usually won't affect the world, apart from ruining family dinner, and it doesn't really change your behaviour or happiness either. Most of the time it's all hardware.
Conservatives want to signal strength, while liberals want to signal weakness. The problem is that signaling strength *actually makes you happier* and signaling weakness *actually makes you more anxious/depressed*. So it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Sort of a "fake it till you make it" effect.
Aren’t they both just signaling status but liberals are enmeshed in a cluster B hierarchy whereas conservatives are just doing regular hierarchy.
A lot of cluster C in there too, I think, but yeah.
Though it is interesting the right values hierarchy but the left has been so successful at institutional capture then.
This isn't just signalling, liberals are smart enough to understand we live in really bad times. Nuclear war is looming, climate change is frying the agriculture, the rich-poor gap is growing, young people can't buy a home, demographics are dropping and so on.
It kinda shocks me how much time and energy we've all wasted trying to convince each other of mostly unimportant political ideas.
What political perspective you hold usually won't affect the world, apart from ruining family dinner, and it doesn't really change your behaviour or happiness either. Most of the time it's all hardware.
Easy to say until they castrate your kid.
Given that we live in an age that sucks, the anxious and depressed have a more correct view of the world.
Conservatism does make people more happy or at least conservatives that become more politically engaged improve their mental health
Poor happas are just unhappy no matter what.