Excellent article. Any depolarization depends on common knowledge of material facts. A corollary: people should decline comment when they don't know the material facts, and should be pilloried if they comment anyway.
“It's even stranger when you recognize that the government and social psychologists actively encourage people to embrace supremacist convictions about their groups”
*other* people
Deracination is the key to the unruling class. They re-racinate everyone else to cut down on the competition.
Do you think that Haidt et al think this sort of thing is “fair and balanced” or just all he can get away with? Is the entire Unruling Class just oblivious to the existence of MAGA altogether?
Likewise, content-free morality isn't a thing. The Word become Flesh. America is a Protestant country with a tendency to tilt to the Platonic but the Broad Shoulders of our Second City that always keep us moving forward are those of Aquinas, and thus Aristotle.
A couple classic texts of the Civil Religion for you to consider as you mull such matters:
Excellent article. Any depolarization depends on common knowledge of material facts. A corollary: people should decline comment when they don't know the material facts, and should be pilloried if they comment anyway.
Trump as a radical centrist really isn’t as crazy as it sounds
“It's even stranger when you recognize that the government and social psychologists actively encourage people to embrace supremacist convictions about their groups”
*other* people
Deracination is the key to the unruling class. They re-racinate everyone else to cut down on the competition.
Understand the game.
Do you think that Haidt et al think this sort of thing is “fair and balanced” or just all he can get away with? Is the entire Unruling Class just oblivious to the existence of MAGA altogether?
Never thought the lacunae could get this large.
Well done
Re: your twitter musings:
The True, Good, And Beautiful are a package deal so competence (Pirsig's quality?), morality, and aesthetics are as well.
ὁμοούσιος, not ὁμοιούσιος
For example:
"Bottom surgery" is:
(1) a euphemism (not true)
(2) evil (not moral)
(3) ugly as sin (to all five senses)
https://youtu.be/10PG8VZiZaQ
Likewise, content-free morality isn't a thing. The Word become Flesh. America is a Protestant country with a tendency to tilt to the Platonic but the Broad Shoulders of our Second City that always keep us moving forward are those of Aquinas, and thus Aristotle.
A couple classic texts of the Civil Religion for you to consider as you mull such matters:
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/77959
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43595/morality