Amen a hundred times! What you call "motivated ignorance" I've been thinking of as "frog in boiling water syndrome." The erosion of "our democracy" (scare quotes intentional) started long before Trump, but "we the people" sucked it up time after time after time as if this was just democracy in action. And now here we are -- and some people *still* want us all to suck it up.
Amen a hundred times! What you call "motivated ignorance" I've been thinking of as "frog in boiling water syndrome." The erosion of "our democracy" (scare quotes intentional) started long before Trump, but "we the people" sucked it up time after time after time as if this was just democracy in action. And now here we are -- and some people *still* want us all to suck it up.
Amen a hundred times! What you call "motivated ignorance" I've been thinking of as "frog in boiling water syndrome." The erosion of "our democracy" (scare quotes intentional) started long before Trump, but "we the people" sucked it up time after time after time as if this was just democracy in action. And now here we are -- and some people *still* want us all to suck it up.
Yes, you're right - two terms for the same phenomenon.