Scott Barry Kaufman

That is what gets you the greatest rewards, because if you claim that spot of being seen as the victim of the conflict, you get resources and support. But the second that you're seen as the tribal group that is the oppressor, nothing you can do can be right. Nothing. You're pure evil, no matter what happens. So I think there's something so primal about that war for that coveted seat.

And as you see, in my last chapter, I don't shy away from saying how it's playing out again in the Israeli... Palestine conflict and how it plays out in almost every intractable conflict among humans. There's something so primal about it.

And as you see, in my last chapter, I don't shy away from saying how it's playing out again in the Israeli... Palestine conflict and how it plays out in almost every intractable conflict among humans. There's something so primal about it.

And as you see, in my last chapter, I don't shy away from saying how it's playing out again in the Israeli... Palestine conflict and how it plays out in almost every intractable conflict among humans. There's something so primal about it.

Well, do you think our modern culture does not incentivize victimhood?

Well, do you think our modern culture does not incentivize victimhood?

Well, do you think our modern culture does not incentivize victimhood?

I think it's like asking why do humans still like fatty foods? I mean, I think that we're seeing remnants of an evolutionarily primal need that needs to be overcome. I mean, it's something that I think we see generation after generation after generation because it's so deeply seeded into our DNA to incentivize that. It's very hard for people to because it's so deeply ingrained.

I think it's like asking why do humans still like fatty foods? I mean, I think that we're seeing remnants of an evolutionarily primal need that needs to be overcome. I mean, it's something that I think we see generation after generation after generation because it's so deeply seeded into our DNA to incentivize that. It's very hard for people to because it's so deeply ingrained.

I think it's like asking why do humans still like fatty foods? I mean, I think that we're seeing remnants of an evolutionarily primal need that needs to be overcome. I mean, it's something that I think we see generation after generation after generation because it's so deeply seeded into our DNA to incentivize that. It's very hard for people to because it's so deeply ingrained.

It takes cognitive work to be able to perceive that there could be two victims at the same time. Very hard for people to wrap their head around that. And I think that's the only way forward.

It takes cognitive work to be able to perceive that there could be two victims at the same time. Very hard for people to wrap their head around that. And I think that's the only way forward.

It takes cognitive work to be able to perceive that there could be two victims at the same time. Very hard for people to wrap their head around that. And I think that's the only way forward.

Yes, and yes, yes, and yes. I just had a conversation with Jonathan Haidt on my podcast about this. Yes, social media, especially TikTok, really incentivizes a victimhood identity among youth. So there really is a lot of peer pressure. It's no... no surprise that teenagers go through an identity crisis. That's happened since the dawn of teenagerhood.

Yes, and yes, yes, and yes. I just had a conversation with Jonathan Haidt on my podcast about this. Yes, social media, especially TikTok, really incentivizes a victimhood identity among youth. So there really is a lot of peer pressure. It's no... no surprise that teenagers go through an identity crisis. That's happened since the dawn of teenagerhood.

Yes, and yes, yes, and yes. I just had a conversation with Jonathan Haidt on my podcast about this. Yes, social media, especially TikTok, really incentivizes a victimhood identity among youth. So there really is a lot of peer pressure. It's no... no surprise that teenagers go through an identity crisis. That's happened since the dawn of teenagerhood.

But now teenagers are hitching their identity as much as possible on some sort of marginalized identity because they know that's the only way they can belong. That's the only way they can feel like they're included.

But now teenagers are hitching their identity as much as possible on some sort of marginalized identity because they know that's the only way they can belong. That's the only way they can feel like they're included.

But now teenagers are hitching their identity as much as possible on some sort of marginalized identity because they know that's the only way they can belong. That's the only way they can feel like they're included.

Well, this is the million-dollar question. You'd get the Nobel Prize if you figured out exactly what was happening. But there seems to have been a cultural shift among youth where – and Jean Twenge has done a great analysis of this in her book Generations – Prior generation, high self-esteem and grandiose narcissism was the major form of entitlement, which is we're the best.