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Le discours méritocratique et entrepreneurial apparaît bien souvent comme une façon commode pour les gagnants du système économique actuel de justifier n’importe quel niveau d’inégalité, sans même avoir à les examiner, et de stigmatiser les perdants pour leur manque de mérite, de vertu et de diligence. Cette culpabilisation des plus pauvres n’existait pas, ou tout du moins pas avec la même ampleur, dans les régimes inégalitaires précédents, qui insistaient davantage sur la complémentarité fonctionnelle entre les différents groupes sociaux.
Capital Et Idéologie
Thomas Piketty
From the moment we are born, we humans feel a never-ending need for attention. We are social animals to the core. Our survival and happiness depend on the bonds we form with others. If people do not pay attention to us, we cannot connect to them on any level. Some of this is purely physical—we must have people looking at us to feel alive. As those who have gone through long periods of isolation can attest, without eye contact we begin to doubt our existence and to descend into a deep depression. But this need is also deeply psychological: through the quality of attention we receive from others, we feel recognized and appreciated for who we are. Our sense of self-worth depends on this.
The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene
REITERATION EFFECT
Joseph Goebbels said* “Repeat a lie enough times and it becomes the truth”, and he was right; repetition can make people believe things they usually wouldn’t.
*Goebbels didn’t actually say this, but everyone thinks he did because of the Reiteration Effect.
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