How Social Pressure Hinders Deep Self-Motivation
Channel: Alex Zorach
Date: 2017-08-10

I draw an analogy between pressure to get confirmed in the Catholic church, and the pressure to display "environmentally conscious" behaviors.  Mainstream liberal culture usually agrees pressure to participate in religion is bad, but I frequently see people doing something very similar with respect to environmental issues.  I explore this analogy in depth and call on us to avoid social shaming and pressure, and instead work to help people do good things out of their own self-motivation.