{"id":4542,"date":"2008-12-09T02:00:06","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=4542"},"modified":"2010-11-30T04:34:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T09:34:44","slug":"our-selfishness-and-our-selflessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/12\/09\/our-selfishness-and-our-selflessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Selfishness and Our Selflessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is highy individualistic.\u00a0 Most advertisers appeal to our indivdual self-interest, as do politicians when trying to &#8220;sell&#8221; public policy.\u00a0 The idea that we should do something for the greater good is not, somehow, as appealing an appeal.<\/p>\n<p>In light of this, it is interesting to see a counter-example.\u00a0 Chris Uggen posted <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisuggen.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/herd-immunity-and-social-reinforcement.html\" target=\"_blank\">this image<\/a> of a sticker he received after he got his flu shot from the University of Minnesota health clinic.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/flu_shot.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4543\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/flu_shot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of the time we are encouraged to get a flu shot so that\u00a0we, personally,\u00a0do not get sick.\u00a0 In this case, we are encouraged to get a flu shot for the good of the greater community.\u00a0 This is a nice example of\u00a0the way that\u00a0a collectivist ideology can be used in place of an individualist ideology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is highy individualistic.\u00a0 Most advertisers appeal to our indivdual self-interest, as do politicians when trying to &#8220;sell&#8221; public policy.\u00a0 The idea that we should do something for the greater good is not, somehow, as appealing an appeal. In light of this, it is interesting to see a counter-example.\u00a0 Chris Uggen posted this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23384,252],"class_list":["post-4542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-healthmedicine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4542"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4731,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions\/4731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}