Good for you for going on that trip! And you make such an interesting point that "we have a tendency to dehumanize not only those we look down upon but those we look up to as well." I had never thought that hero worship and demonizing others had anything in common inside our brains.
Good for you for going on that trip! And you make such an interesting point that "we have a tendency to dehumanize not only those we look down upon but those we look up to as well." I had never thought that hero worship and demonizing others had anything in common inside our brains.
Thank you, Mark! I am still ruminating some on the idea, especially thinking about Americans' particular love of hero narratives...