Submissive conventional people experience social change as a shrinking island of stability

Evidence

Highly submissive, highly conventional persons have invested a lot in the status quo. They perceive waves of rebellion and sin constantly shrinking their island of respectable stability, especially if they feel personally vulnerable to attack in a disintegrating, increasingly lawless society. The classic responses to strong fear, after all, are “Fight” or “Run away! Run away!” — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 540

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Social change outpacing libidinal adjustment creates explosive political conditions — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 331; Failed socialization forces revolutionary alternatives into the vacuum — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 30; Social change outpacing generational horizons shrinks the reliable present.