Virtue-Signaling

Virtue-signaling is selfish; it is intended to signal goodness, not caring for others.

As discussed in “Theory of Self-Relativity” ideologies are limiting as they are formed around limiting-beliefs and are intended to unify people in a group, a team, or a cult; often with the intention of going against others who don’t believe or follow the doctrines of the ideology. While tribalism was traditionally intended to unify and to even protect a group; nowadays, tribalism is intended to take a contradictory position towards others.

Through virtue-signaling, ideological-people signal to others that they belong and that they are “good-people;” which in-turn, gives them more reason to commit to their ideology and to ignore their own personal-weaknesses that need to be improved.  This social-signaling is commonly known as “virtue-signaling.” According to “Theory of Self-Relativity” when one engages in virtue-signaling, one is intending to show to others that one is a good and moral person, because one stands-up for a good cause. However, virtue-signaling, at the deeper nonconscious level, enables the person to engage in what Self-Relativity has termed as “Externalation.”

Theory of Self-Relativity defines “externalation” as “one’s focus and preoccupation with external things and events in order to avoid and distract one’s Self from observing and recognizing one’s own deficiencies.”