I believe it is scientific, but certainly my observation, that people on the political left tend to have a personality that demonstrates lower capability for emotional regulation. Haidt probably put his finger on it in his study over moral filters: where liberal people tended to only operate on care/harm, and because we all pursue our own self interest, it is the care/harm of self that liberals tend to focus on. When you combine these things, then the media gaslighting turn we have seen is much more likely to cause a level of psychosis and extreme emotional behavior in left people. Left people lose control and need a release. The march and protest, they resist, they hell and scream... and today they kill. If right people does these things... including turning violent... it is more likely based on a strategy that pulls in all the other moral filters.... are/Harm, Fairness/Cheating, Loyalty/Betrayal, Authority/Subversion, Sanctity/Degradation, and Liberty/Oppression. For this reason the media gaslighting of right people is not as dangerous.... we see far less political violence from the right for this reason... and the reason that most of the media is left-oriented and thus there is much more volume for left consumers of media.
Not too long ago those made easily afraid, angry, sad, frustrated, etc... would get a dose of Tom Brokaw at night to calm them down. Today, not is that not happening, but the media has done a 180 degree turn to be the primary cause of fear, anger, sadness and frustration. The tech algorithms amplify the effect.
It seems to me that the source of the political violence snake that we need to kill is the terrible behavior of the media and the terrible amplifying effect of the tech algorithms... especially for the left audience. I don't think free speech should include protecting the corporate practice of attracting and capturing people into a psychological trap by constantly inflaming their negative emotions. We can do better than that.
I believe it is scientific, but certainly my observation, that people on the political left tend to have a personality that demonstrates lower capability for emotional regulation. Haidt probably put his finger on it in his study over moral filters: where liberal people tended to only operate on care/harm, and because we all pursue our own self interest, it is the care/harm of self that liberals tend to focus on. When you combine these things, then the media gaslighting turn we have seen is much more likely to cause a level of psychosis and extreme emotional behavior in left people. Left people lose control and need a release. The march and protest, they resist, they hell and scream... and today they kill. If right people does these things... including turning violent... it is more likely based on a strategy that pulls in all the other moral filters.... are/Harm, Fairness/Cheating, Loyalty/Betrayal, Authority/Subversion, Sanctity/Degradation, and Liberty/Oppression. For this reason the media gaslighting of right people is not as dangerous.... we see far less political violence from the right for this reason... and the reason that most of the media is left-oriented and thus there is much more volume for left consumers of media.
Not too long ago those made easily afraid, angry, sad, frustrated, etc... would get a dose of Tom Brokaw at night to calm them down. Today, not is that not happening, but the media has done a 180 degree turn to be the primary cause of fear, anger, sadness and frustration. The tech algorithms amplify the effect.
It seems to me that the source of the political violence snake that we need to kill is the terrible behavior of the media and the terrible amplifying effect of the tech algorithms... especially for the left audience. I don't think free speech should include protecting the corporate practice of attracting and capturing people into a psychological trap by constantly inflaming their negative emotions. We can do better than that.