Moral pretension
Name(s):
Overcompensation for socio-cultural deficiencies
Claim
Life in industrialized countries, and notably the USA, as experienced by most people, is so boring, uniform and devoid of significant soul, so isolated from the traditions of the past, that it demands to be raised and misrepresented as something wonderful. Such moral pretension thus becomes an understandable reaction to the emptiness and dullness of daily life. As such it does represent a form of quest for at least the illusion of distinction and value.
Narrower
Aggravates
Sense of impermanence [in 7 loops]
Minimization of problems [in 4 loops]
Restrictive social policies [in 2 loops]
Historical misrepresentation [in 22 loops]
Conceptual repression of problems [in 4 loops]
Unrealistically positive self-assessment [in 1 loop]
Aggravated by
Strategy(ies)
Value(s)
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems