Or, if you ask a random adolescent about how they would fix some frustrating aspect of the world, the answer would usually make things much worse, if you think about it for five minutes. “Kill the outgroup” is quite popular, or “just tell them to do X and kill/imprison anyone who resists”.
There is also a difference between parents expressing frustration about vaccination, like maybe it happens to early or too frequently, but their reactions will be different if they have e.g. “vaccines cause autism” as a rallying point.
Basically, a meme can offer a “cure” that is worse than the thing you were originally frustrated about, but it sounds attractive because the frustration happens here and now, and the concerns about the “cure” seem too hypothetical.
Can you please give some more concrete examples (historical or hypothetical) of what you have in mind here?
The historically most famous example was “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains”. (It turned out that they actually had something to lose, such as their lives, and the lives of their families.)
Or, if you ask a random adolescent about how they would fix some frustrating aspect of the world, the answer would usually make things much worse, if you think about it for five minutes. “Kill the outgroup” is quite popular, or “just tell them to do X and kill/imprison anyone who resists”.
There is also a difference between parents expressing frustration about vaccination, like maybe it happens to early or too frequently, but their reactions will be different if they have e.g. “vaccines cause autism” as a rallying point.
Basically, a meme can offer a “cure” that is worse than the thing you were originally frustrated about, but it sounds attractive because the frustration happens here and now, and the concerns about the “cure” seem too hypothetical.