Why social change is so excruciatingly difficult

When we look across the broad sweep of human history, what needs
explaining is not times of rebellion and upheaval, but the much
more common periods of unjust rule facing little resistance. Why
do people so often internalize the ideologies upholding systems
under which they suffer? Why do they fail to fight back?
Psychologist John Jost has an answer. I talked it over with him.


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