Problem

Complacency


Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
Dependence on complacency
Complacent people
Self-satisfaction
Citizen complacency
Culture of contentment
Nature:

Self-satisfaction may result in failure to cope with problems of various kinds. People who are in a fortunate position tend to attribute virtue to what makes them content. So complacency reinforces social attitudes against change, and may justify social inequalities and injustice by moralism or cynicism. It aggravates social conflict and may encourage violence as an only recourse.

Incidence:

Prime Minister Chamberlain's satisfaction after the Munich Accords with Chancellor Hitler was a notable example of one form of complacency. Victorian attitudes in the UK towards the British Empire were also complacent. There was complacency after the founding of the United Nations Organization, as there had been after that of the League of Nations; and there is complacency among the industrialized nations that they are doing all they can for development in the Third World.

Reduces:
Extremism
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 3: Good Health and Well-beingGOAL 4: Quality Education
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems
Date of last update
12.12.2020 – 04:18 CET