Learned Helplessness at Scale
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Application of Seligman's psychological principle to institutional systems: when individuals repeatedly experience that their actions have no effect in vast bureaucratic systems, they develop learned helplessness. This scales to populations, producing civic disengagement and psychological acceptance of dependence as preferable to overwhelming complexity.
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