The illustration is not analogous. The first picture is based on the perception that centrists have of themselves, the second is the reality of that perception. It’s a metaphor. Humor does not always follow logic, crazy right?
This incongruity model can explain why older adults do not comprehend jokes as frequently as younger adults. Due to declines tied to the aging process, older adults may not have the cognitive resources needed to create multiple representations, to simultaneously hold multiple ones in order to detect the incongruity, or to inhibit the first one that was activated. Getting the joke relies on working memory capacity and control functions. However, when older adults succeed in their efforts to do these things, they typically show greater appreciation of the joke than younger adults do and report greater life satisfaction than those who don’t see the humor.
Interesting read on why sometimes we don’t get the joke.
The right sees themselves on top. That’s the whole basis of their worldview, whether they expressly know it or not – they’re the privileged class in the “natural order.” Actually, some of them are on the bottom too, but are being deceived by those at the top with false promises that they can be there too (these are the people I’m mostly interested in reaching - the only cure for the people on top is … uh … being redacted, let’s say).
People identifying as left is tricky. Most of us end up at the bottom for not playing their sick games (anarchists, socialists, etc.), though I’d add layers to the bottom rung. There’s a vast difference between the marginalization a communist feels for being discriminated against for a political philosophy vs. what a LGBTQ+ person or BIPOC feels for their whole identity.
But it gets complicated because neoliberals often think of themselves as “left” but they are in reality centrists. Every time a liberal compromises with the right, they are positioning themselves exactly where you see the centrist in the picture. It’s why they act baffled when they get called out for signing off on things like the fascist border policy or sending arms to a genocidal state because in their minds of course we need to cOmPrOmIsE, and people who are harmed by that compromise be damned! Won’t somebody think about the campaign!!! If we criticize them, then it’s because we just “don’t know how the world works” or we are “young, and we’ll grow out of it” (I’m nearly half a century old, and I only get more convinced I’m right lol).
Mostly speaking from a US perspective, since that’s where I live.
So where would the people identifying themselves as left or right be?
The illustration is not analogous. The first picture is based on the perception that centrists have of themselves, the second is the reality of that perception. It’s a metaphor. Humor does not always follow logic, crazy right?
Interesting read on why sometimes we don’t get the joke.
The right sees themselves on top. That’s the whole basis of their worldview, whether they expressly know it or not – they’re the privileged class in the “natural order.” Actually, some of them are on the bottom too, but are being deceived by those at the top with false promises that they can be there too (these are the people I’m mostly interested in reaching - the only cure for the people on top is … uh … being redacted, let’s say).
People identifying as left is tricky. Most of us end up at the bottom for not playing their sick games (anarchists, socialists, etc.), though I’d add layers to the bottom rung. There’s a vast difference between the marginalization a communist feels for being discriminated against for a political philosophy vs. what a LGBTQ+ person or BIPOC feels for their whole identity.
But it gets complicated because neoliberals often think of themselves as “left” but they are in reality centrists. Every time a liberal compromises with the right, they are positioning themselves exactly where you see the centrist in the picture. It’s why they act baffled when they get called out for signing off on things like the fascist border policy or sending arms to a genocidal state because in their minds of course we need to cOmPrOmIsE, and people who are harmed by that compromise be damned! Won’t somebody think about the campaign!!! If we criticize them, then it’s because we just “don’t know how the world works” or we are “young, and we’ll grow out of it” (I’m nearly half a century old, and I only get more convinced I’m right lol).
Mostly speaking from a US perspective, since that’s where I live.