“The Pitt” and the Death of Plastic Television
The bland stuff is usually overcontrolled. It is born in fear. Fear of offense, fear of ambiguity, fear of silence, fear of unlikable characters, fear of scenes that do not announce their purpose like a man banging a gong in a Baptist parking lot.
Groupthink and “Us Versus Them” Voting: An Expressive Space Framework Analysis of Polarized Cognition in the United States
The contemporary political climate in the United States is increasingly characterized by identity-based alignment, where political judgments and voting behavior are shaped less by deliberation over policy consequences and more by allegiance to an in-group and opposition to an out-group.