
Why social change is so excruciatingly difficult
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System Justification
I wanted to just get the notion of system justification out there is just make people a little bit more self-aware or self-conscious about it. Like if you find yourself in a position of saying that kids these days are lazy, you should have a glimmer of self-awareness like, oh, wait a minute, all the other old people throughout all of history have thought that about young people. I don't know why that's so difficult for people. So maybe we should try to destigmatize a little bit this process of system justification and recognize that all of us experience it to some degree or another. And at our best, we can create social systems like science itself that encourage
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