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This is especially so if you did not receive what you think you deserved from that hierarchy (hierarchies are, after all, supposed to reward you for succeeding in them and playing by the rules). When a hierarchy of any kind rejects us, perhaps even if we leave it for personal reasons, we naturally experience resentment. He also has openly rejected his old communities, some of whom say “he was never a Christian.”
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Fast forward a few years, and Rhett isn’t religious anymore.
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California is a very different place than North Carolina. With a new place comes new definitions of success and pressure to change your values. Rhett and Link moved from the deep south to California years ago to follow their show biz dreams. The unfortunate reality is that we’re all deeply inclined to believe things because of “groupthink” or, put more technically, because the prevailing thought of our social hierarchy deems it as “gospel.” That’s because hierarchies reward us for affirming our “gods” (values) and condemning our “devils” (that which opposes our values – including the “gods” of other social structures). But how does he not realize that the new idea he espouses is, itself, ideological? Why does Rhett so easily accept this new ideology while thoughtlessly condemning his old one? Why the obvious hypocrisy and double-standard? That’s one way to smell ideology by the way: vast oversimplification. But you know your study has major issues when you simply determine whether or not someone is “racist” with three clearly biased questions. He tries to make it look legit, quoting the Public Religion Research Group. In a nutshell, Rhett condemns the evangelical church as racist because of, well, ideology. I won’t get into the whole long conversation that there is around racism, but that’s where the conversation goes. Then, only moments later, in a soft-serve swirl of irony and hypocrisy, Rhett commits the sin he just condemned, espousing his new ideology. Blindspots emerge in our thinking.Ĭase in point: Rhett one moment denounces the ideology in general, claiming those of his former social group (evangelical Christianity) are ideologues. This has the unfortunate aftereffect of blinding us to the “babies in the bathwater,” so to speak, from our old hierarchies. The gods are supposed to reward us for success in those values the devils are supposed to keep us from failing.īut when we switch hierarchies, our new gods often teach us to make a devil out of our old gods.
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The not-so-simple answer is because we are social and hierarchical creatures, and our social hierarchies all have gods and devils that guide our values, which direct our behaviour. It got me wondering: Why do we often feel resentment or otherwise negative attitudes towards our former communities (or other communities in general)? A while back, I looked at YouTubers Rhett and Link and their “ spiritual deconstructions.” They recently recorded follow-up episodes which have me thinking.Īs someone obsessed with (and studying) psychology for the last few years, I was noticing their beliefs and attitudes towards their former communities.