I Love You Keep Going with George Haas The Attached Society: How Collective Insecurity Fuels Polarization
Feb 27, 2026
A look at how anxious, avoidant, and disorganized attachment patterns scale up to shape culture and politics. Conversations about how modern project-based work, consumerism, and inequality erode time for personal exploration. Examination of how economic shifts, addiction patterns, and relationship dynamics feed collective insecurity and polarization.
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Childhood Attachment Shapes Economic Behavior
- Early childhood attachment strategies form a hierarchy we carry into adult economic life and shape how we elicit responses from others.
- George Haas explains that these learned tactics determine which workplace cultures reward you and which leave you stranded.
Workplace Culture Selects Attachment Styles
- Postwar corporate structures rewarded dismissing/narcissistic attachment traits, easing advancement for those with those strategies.
- George Haas contrasts that with newer tech project cultures that require self-management and unsettle longtime career milestones.
Coder Example Shows Project Work Erodes Belonging
- George Haas illustrates with a coder in a tech company who moves project-to-project, often remote, losing team camaraderie and job security.
- He links that instability to competition among teammates and the erosion of primary exploration time.