All we feel lost, sometimes.

Forget, isolated from society, alienated.
From there, the step towards anger, or toward something even stronger in the rabbiafuria, even hatred against yourself, the system, people who are different from you or they do not understand you, against everything can be short.
To quote Alfred in The Dark Knight: "Some men just want to see the world burn."
According to a recent study, we want to see the world burn a widespread feeling and could explain different things sull'instabilit policy that are facing America and the world.
The study, "A 'Need for Chaos' and the Sharing of Hostile Political Rumors in Advanced Democracies" released in August 2018, but has just won an award by the American Association of Political Science, which brought him to the attention of Thomas Edsall of the New York Times that talked about it in an editorial.
The researchers of the University of Aarhus and at Temple University in Philadelphia have been trying to understand why people share "hostile rumors in political topic" on the internet.
The first explanation that, in the increasingly divisive era, the easier that members of a political party spread rumors to discredit the other side, no matter whether they are true or false.
But the authors of the study are inclined for a much more disturbing conclusion: the impulse would be "associated with 'chaotic' motivation to 'incinerate' the whole 'cosmos' democratic ...
This extreme discontent leads to the spread of hostile gossip because they are not considered true, but because we believe that serve to mobilize the public against hate lite. "
The researchers reached this conclusion after subjecting to a survey of a representative sample of more than 6,000 people in the US and Denmark (whose political climate considered less polarized than in the US).
The survey asked whether the participants would share online from various statements that were obviously false to be very difficult to test (for example, "Former President Obama has formed a 'shadow government' ... to bring down President Trump") and also resulted in a factor called "Need for Chaos" ( "Chaos Need", or NFC) asking subjects if they agree with statements such as:
Cool on a natural disaster that exterminations much of mankind, so that a small group of people can start again I think the company should be reduced to ashes Sometimes I want to destroy beautiful things Right and wrong do not exist in this world
The researchers found, after establishing control groups by gender, age, level of education and ideology, the NFC was strongly linked to the arrangement hostile to spread rumors on the Internet.
The males, younger and less educated were more likely to have a strong NFC, as were people living alone and who considered of low social status.
The researchers reported in the NFC Edsall associated with support for Donald Trump and, to a lesser extent, to the one for Bernie Sanders.
Moreover, despite the NFC phrases can be melodramatic, some have had widespread support.
Edsall writes:
The answer to three of the statements found in particular "amazing," reports the study: 24 percent said they agree with the idea that the company should be burned to the ground; 40 percent are recognized in the phrase "when we speak of our political and social institutions, I can not help but think 'let's leave them to burn'"; and 40 percent agree it also said with the phrase "we can not solve the problems of our social institutions, we have to make them collapse and start over."
It would be nice that this Need Chaos it were only those who could be called "deplorable": young white men, isolated and frustrated that seethe with anger because they are unemployed or do not work enough and spend all day on 8chan.
You may find a desire for chaos in the terrorists' claims and those who have dedicated their lives to the QAnon conspiracy theories.
As Edsall observes, the NFC also explains part of the support received from Trump, since a significant portion of the American electorate seems driven by a desire to destroy the system.
Thomas Massie, a member of the Republican area Congress, had expressed a similar theory in 2017, when he told the Washington Examiner that what had initially interpreted as a preference for minimal government interference among Republican voters was actually a pulse to vote for "the most crazy son of a bitch in the race."
Seen from this perspective, not a fever Trumpismo No ideology.
expression of a deeply rooted need of Chaos which manifests itself in many modil'NFC could explain, for example, why the troll alt-right to go mad meme on the improbable US presidential candidate Andrew Yang.
The NFC certainly provides a possible explanation of why blatantly false rumors spread quickly online and so to take root so deep as to transform the conspiracy theories in physical violence.
The research points out that none of these findings predicts something drastic as a revolution or a sudden political upheaval in the United States.
"This study opens a window on the kind of thoughts and behaviors that people are more likely to have when they are alone (and feel the sun) at the computer to respond to surveys or surfing on social platforms," write the authors.
But, they add: "In an age of fake news and hostile political voices to contribute to the defeat of the system do not need much more than so.
A few chaotic thoughts that lead to a few clicks to retweet and share may be enough. "
A version of this article was originally published on US VICE.

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