This piece on feeling lucky and optimistic made a lot of sense to me: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/29/down-on-your-luck-how-behavioural-neuroscience-could-help

Might read the book too:

https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Lucky-People-by-Nobuko-Nakano/9781398551183

#newBook #pscychology #neuroscience #science #nonfiction #books

‘The effect of hijacked victimhood is to ‘delegitimize’ actual victims and redefine them as threatening. The powerful parties that hijack victimhood also cast their ‘political opposition as … morally polluted … [and] undermine a sense of legitimate opposition by presenting the opposition as malicious and evil victimizers…’’

https://proletarianperspective.wordpress.com/2025/03/19/strategic-and-hijacked-victimhood/

#Orwell #Pscychology #Politics #press #Trump #Orban #Israel #Palestine