Having read a little Festinger and Skinner, it’s weird to see this happening at a national scale. “Reputational threat” is abstract and something you might expect in a closed boardroom or dysfunctional wealthy family. But here we are.
No comment, because I haven’t watched the whole thing yet.
Transcript, video of Jack Smith’s testimony on Trump cases released
Yeah, same old game.
We The People turned our backs on our government and Constitution and it really started rolling with the success of the Tobacco Legislation Wars, and even bigger effort the Climate Science Denial machine.
https://www.merchantsofdoubt.org, and on infinitum.
I had a front row seat, since I kept my eyes on the prize (a healthy Earth) since my high school awakening to the science. It’s crushingly depressing sometimes, but that passes and life goes on. In my late twenties someone suggested I ask myself:
“What will you be present to?”
Perhaps the finest, most concise, constructive piece of physiological advice I ever received.