{"id":61126,"date":"2024-11-06T11:31:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T10:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=61126"},"modified":"2024-11-08T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T20:41:00","slug":"wounded-but-not-divided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wounded-but-not-divided\/","title":{"rendered":"Wounded but not Divided"},"content":{"rendered":"\u201cA hammer only sees nails.\u201d This is a saying about the power of narrative. Moods guide perceptions, feelings seek a homeland, and judgments snap into place. In a complex world, narratives can be seductive. They become self-fulfilling prophecies, where one\u2019s prevailing mood is confirmed and reinforces one\u2019s worldview. There\u2019s a widespread assumption that European societies are divided. Is that true?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPolarization is on the rise, so it\u2019s purported, and in fact, the topic of \u201ca divided society\u201d is being mentioned seven times more frequently in German newspapers today than it was twenty years ago, with Brexit and the US elections being painted as scenarios that have also arrived in Middle Europe.According to: Newspaper archive of the Digitalen W\u00f6rterbuchs der deuts<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA hammer only sees nails.\u201d This is a saying about the power of narrative. Moods guide perceptions, feelings seek a homeland, and judgments snap into place. In a complex world, narratives can be seductive. They become self-fulfilling prophecies, where one\u2019s prevailing mood is confirmed and reinforces one\u2019s worldview. There\u2019s a widespread assumption that European societies are divided. Is that true? Polarization is on the rise, so it\u2019s purported, and in fact, the topic of \u201ca divided society\u201d is being mentioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9159,"featured_media":60019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8838,8823,8790],"tags":[11554,11575,8824],"class_list":["post-61126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-time-issues","category-reflection","category-society-en","tag-2024-37-en","tag-english-issue-45-2024","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}