I wish I remembered the name for it, but I heard about a phenomena in American media that an outsider hero often swoops in and saves the day, and that it can tend to create an internalized narrative that one doesn’t need the long boring work of democracy and education because there is always the hope that The Hero Will Come Soon.
I wish I remembered the name for it, but I heard about a phenomena in American media that an outsider hero often swoops in and saves the day, and that it can tend to create an internalized narrative that one doesn’t need the long boring work of democracy and education because there is always the hope that The Hero Will Come Soon.
There exist people who are literally waiting for aliens to show up and make everything better.
Or the much more common Christians waiting for the return of their Messiah.
Learned helplessness maybe