{"id":256834,"date":"2020-07-26T08:24:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T15:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=256834"},"modified":"2020-07-26T08:27:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T15:27:15","slug":"why-blame-others-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/26\/why-blame-others-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Blame Others?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is the psychology of blaming others or society? My thoughts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The psychology of blaming others <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The basic gist:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I suffer. Why do I suffer? I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to believe that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m the cause of my own suffering. I must scape-goat my suffering onto someone else \u00e2\u20ac\u201d whether society, the state, government, or any form of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ism\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps blame is some sort of deranged psychological condition in which an individual has no faith in his or her own personal strength, and must allay their blame and suffering upon another entity. The scape goat notion might be a distinctly human one \u00e2\u20ac\u201d note human sacrifices and such. Rene Girard (<a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/05\/12-lessons-peter-thiel-has-taught-me-about-life-philosophy-and-entrepreneurship\/\">Peter Thiel<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mentor) seems to has espoused this view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the psychology of blaming others or society? My thoughts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3A342821-E306-41ED-B356-029023CEA088.jpeg?fit=1668%2C2224&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256834"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256840,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256834\/revisions\/256840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}