
Why social change is so excruciatingly difficult
Volts
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Taking a Step Back and Looking at the System From the Outside
The world that girls are born into and raised in today is a very different social system than 70 years ago or 40 years ago. I think it's easier to understand something like how system justification can operate if you really understand how, let's say, the average housewife 70 years ago thought about things. Our own mothers are grandmothers, right? Great grandmothers. Right. Progress does happen. But also that, that, I don't even know how old you are and it doesn't matter. But the point is that we're born into a new generation and that is part of this system justification process. Because the way things are when we're sentient beings is the status quo for us
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