Problem
Complacency
Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
Dependence on complacencyComplacent 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.
Narrower Problems:
MoralismReligious complacencyGovernment complacencyComplacency in scienceFalse sense of security Related Problems:
VanityElitismDecadenceMisperceptionHarmful thoughtPolitical apathyLack of satisfactionPsychological inertiaUnderdevelopment of countries Aggravates:
ConservatismImpaired vigilanceDecline in civic participationFixation on partial solutions to problems Reduces:
Extremism Strategies:
Pacifying citizensMaintaining complacencyUsing complacencyPromoting selfPractising solidarity Subject(s):
Culture → Culture Government → Citizenship
Individuation → Individuation
Societal Problems → Dependence
Society → People
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
12.12.2020 – 04:18 CET