Apr 15, 2017
Psychologist
Sheldon Solomon is the guest on this week's episode of The
Chauncey DeVega Show. He is a leading authority on social
psychology and helped to develop what is known as "terror
management theory". Dr. Solomon has written numerous books and
articles including In the Wake of 9/11: The Psychology of
Terror and The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in
Life.
During this week's show Sheldon and
Chauncey discuss how existential angst and death anxieties
influenced Trump's voters, Trump and destruction, how emotion can
overcome reason in political decision-making, can any headway be
made in bringing Trump's deplorables and other supporters back to
normal society and reason, if individuals and cultures truly
change, as well as the lack of expert voices on the role of
psychology and politics in the mass media.
On this week's show, Chauncey shares
some thoughts about being an only child and product of the working
class, explains how White House spokesperson Sean Spicer is an
anti-Semite and Holocaust-denier, and offers some thoughts about
the new Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer and also the amazing
second season of the Hap and Leonard television show. Chauncey also
reads
a newspaper story from the Chicago Tribune about how
"hillbillies" were overrunning the city during the
1950s.