How Politics and Media Weaponize our Political Psychology
…and How the Success of that Weaponization is Decidedly Asymmetrical
When given the opportunity to give a TED Talk inspired by my book Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States, I landed on the following:
- Political ideology as aesthetic: My explanatory theory, rooted in political psychology, which accounts for how and why liberals and conservatives create and consume such distinct political programming and…