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The Threat Within The Triumph Summary

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Throughout this course we have learned that all people, no matter where they live in the world, are capable of committing acts of evil. We have seen an increase in this evilness since the beginning of the postindustrial society due to a variety of different factors. The ones that I find the most critical are caricature of the nervous system, evolution of legal systems, depersonalization, essentializing, restorative justice and resilience.
Caricature of the nervous system plays a large role in how people think and act in today’s society. Our caricature emphasizes the dramatic features of events and how our brain sees them. In the reading The Threat Within the Triumph, the author writes, “many of the predicaments of our society come about from the way people respond to, simplify, and ultimately caricature reality in their minds”, (3). This is critical for contemporary post industrial society because it is an example of how our brains are changing and evolving, which might help explain why society is the way it is. If …show more content…

One part of stereotyping is the idea of essentializing, which means reducing an otherwise heterogeneous group of people to one or a few fixed essentials. Another part of this is rationalizing, which means attributing reality to mental constructions about a group of people. People are thinking about others in ways that group them all together so we aren't viewing others as individuals. This is critical for post industrial society because as we continue to group people together, we are missing out on peoples distinctions and their individuality, and we lose a sense of culture that goes along with that. We can't keep looking at other people different from us. Noorhan, one of the refugees I tutor at Crawford, asked me if I’m really smart because I am tutor. I thought this was funny because being a tutor doesn’t mean that you are necessarily really smart. So this was a perfect example of

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