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🗓️ 29 October 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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0:00.0 | In perhaps the most memorable scene in the 1997 classic film Goodwill Hunting, a brilliant |
0:07.8 | working-class janitor, played by Matt Damon, breaks down when told simply by his therapist, it's not your fault. |
0:15.0 | Look at me son. |
0:17.0 | It's not your fault. |
0:20.0 | I know. |
0:22.0 | It's not your fault I know no no it's not |
0:23.7 | your fault I know no no it's not your fault. |
0:40.0 | I think about that scene a lot these days and not just because we're living through a period of 90s nostalgia. |
0:47.0 | I think about it because it exemplifies what I believe is happening on an emotional level to people who are connecting with the Bernie Sanders campaign. |
0:52.1 | You see Bernie articulates more clearly than any other candidate that the problems facing |
0:57.8 | everyday Americans are not the result of laziness or a failure to work hard. It's because systems have been rigged |
1:05.9 | to benefit the rich at our expense. Republicans and moderate Democrats for years |
1:12.2 | have mythologized to the quote unquote undeserving poor, |
1:16.0 | cast working people as takers as opposed to makers, |
1:19.0 | and pretended that good outcomes were proof of merit |
1:22.0 | and that poor outcomes were deserved. |
1:25.0 | In psychology this is called the Just World fallacy. |
1:29.0 | The idea that good things happen to good people and bad things are desert. |
1:32.8 | It helps us to feel that the world isn't so random and cruel. |
1:36.6 | But it also helps disguise structural issues |
1:39.5 | that are at the root of so many problems |
1:41.7 | that feel random, but aren't really. |
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