The demand side is not considered here - will it be addressed later? If work is becoming more cognitive, then fallout in terms of disability and inactvity should be expected. In this way, lower capacity, summarised as lower IQ, is accomodated.
Very interesting. I wonder if a more general decline in any positive identification with the country and its past might also have a bearing on the mental health aspects here, especially concerning the white population and white working class? In part, this would reflect economic restructuring and the loss of traditional industries and allied rooted communities since the 1970s and 80s. But there's also the potentially very pernicious psychological influence of wokeism, especially among the young.
The flip side of the 'sacralization' of certain gender, race and sexual group identities (positive prejudice) is the deliberate 'demonization' of others (negative prejudice). And white English/Welsh groups will bear the brunt of that (e.g. Labour's "Anti-Racist Wales" strategy which prioritises the 'correction' of white bias, white privilege, white racial prejudices etc.).
Growing up in a country in which your own establishment tends to represent you, your country and its past very negatively is hardly conducive to mental well being. This might also be having a negative influence on white people in particular, although it's hard to measure it without asking people about it directly.
A nation is a large body of people UNITED by a common culture, language, history and shared occupancy of a territory. Unity, not diversity, is arguably its strength. A positive or confident identification with that, or even with the IDEA of that (and hence one's sense of purpose and place in the world), might well be supportive of mental well being, even for secular individuals. But the loss of it might also be contributing significantly to some of the poorer outcomes for white people in recent years, especially amongst those who lack the family support networks to build up any compensatory resilience.
Secular individualism might not be such a bad thing in itself, but might serve to make people more vulnerable to the adverse effects of other, potentially more negative, influences that are not being studied directly. This is similar to arguments that are only now starting to be made about 'toxic masculinity' (see below). Practically no work has been done on assessing ITS harmful impacts. These might be worse for those who are socially isolated, but they still impact upon everyone. The same argument could be made in relation to the current prevalence of negative portrayals of 'whiteness' and of our country and its history.
JA Barry (2023). ‘’Toxic masculinity’ is toxic terminology’. Male Psychology, 3 (4), 19-22.
The demand side is not considered here - will it be addressed later? If work is becoming more cognitive, then fallout in terms of disability and inactvity should be expected. In this way, lower capacity, summarised as lower IQ, is accomodated.
This research may need revisiting over time to identify the impact of AI on demand also?
Very interesting. I wonder if a more general decline in any positive identification with the country and its past might also have a bearing on the mental health aspects here, especially concerning the white population and white working class? In part, this would reflect economic restructuring and the loss of traditional industries and allied rooted communities since the 1970s and 80s. But there's also the potentially very pernicious psychological influence of wokeism, especially among the young.
The flip side of the 'sacralization' of certain gender, race and sexual group identities (positive prejudice) is the deliberate 'demonization' of others (negative prejudice). And white English/Welsh groups will bear the brunt of that (e.g. Labour's "Anti-Racist Wales" strategy which prioritises the 'correction' of white bias, white privilege, white racial prejudices etc.).
Growing up in a country in which your own establishment tends to represent you, your country and its past very negatively is hardly conducive to mental well being. This might also be having a negative influence on white people in particular, although it's hard to measure it without asking people about it directly.
A nation is a large body of people UNITED by a common culture, language, history and shared occupancy of a territory. Unity, not diversity, is arguably its strength. A positive or confident identification with that, or even with the IDEA of that (and hence one's sense of purpose and place in the world), might well be supportive of mental well being, even for secular individuals. But the loss of it might also be contributing significantly to some of the poorer outcomes for white people in recent years, especially amongst those who lack the family support networks to build up any compensatory resilience.
Secular individualism might not be such a bad thing in itself, but might serve to make people more vulnerable to the adverse effects of other, potentially more negative, influences that are not being studied directly. This is similar to arguments that are only now starting to be made about 'toxic masculinity' (see below). Practically no work has been done on assessing ITS harmful impacts. These might be worse for those who are socially isolated, but they still impact upon everyone. The same argument could be made in relation to the current prevalence of negative portrayals of 'whiteness' and of our country and its history.
JA Barry (2023). ‘’Toxic masculinity’ is toxic terminology’. Male Psychology, 3 (4), 19-22.