The thing is that most people have no threshold for legitimacy, no defined line where they admit the system is irreparably corrupt.
As long as there's no measuring stick there then the system can be completely corrupt and is legitimized mostly by group think pertaining to what's been normalized in the culture, aka falling into the bandwagon fallacy. Just as soon as something is normalized then people simply assume the commonly held belief is true and will scoff at the idea that the emperor isn't wearing any clothes.
It's frustrating, isn't it? As with any addiction, for many it probably takes hitting rock bottom before they can even see they are stuck in harmful patterns at all. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. But I'm guessing there's a whole load more even we're not seeing yet. What a ride!
The thing is that most people have no threshold for legitimacy, no defined line where they admit the system is irreparably corrupt.
As long as there's no measuring stick there then the system can be completely corrupt and is legitimized mostly by group think pertaining to what's been normalized in the culture, aka falling into the bandwagon fallacy. Just as soon as something is normalized then people simply assume the commonly held belief is true and will scoff at the idea that the emperor isn't wearing any clothes.
I know,I know, I know. Goes without saying!
It's frustrating, isn't it? As with any addiction, for many it probably takes hitting rock bottom before they can even see they are stuck in harmful patterns at all. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. But I'm guessing there's a whole load more even we're not seeing yet. What a ride!