Several years ago I desperately tried to stay awake through Haidt's book, but it was patiently and politely describing things that I knew intimately as a blogger who crossed over from progressive to neoconservative thought. I much more appreciate Haidt's existence as a patient explainer when people ask me specific questions about the failure of the Humanities in the collegiate arenas owing to his more recent book. I expect that I may have some future use for Kahneman's revered ideas, but Gladwell's summaries sufficed. When the next generation of social networks arrive, that will be the time. I have a great deal of interest in such things but my aim to to code first, think later. (https://www.mdcbowen.org/logos/index.html)
Taleb always gives me something fresh and deep to think about and I have been a fanboy for many years. I agree that people change religion rather than the other way around. Very few are devout enough, except perhaps the lost and thirstily converted for the reverse to be the primary case. And yet I remain struck by an axiom of my thinking about religion that is moves much slower than government which in turn is slower than politics all slower than commerce and fashion. That which survives is ossified as civilization and thus the principles of religion must be the truest (or most mysterious) tenets of all. One might call it conservative, but I think as such religion tradition should be one of the least disposable items of humanity. So it unnerves me to see the words of worship turned in response to popular demands when for so many centuries, they worked for the disciplined devout.
But philosophy works the same way and must bend slowly over time as our slow thinking reveals more than traditions might allow. All good.
The moment in view is done en passant. I need only a minimal amount of detail to digest what goes down in American politics. It is not a place for learning and there is too much other stuff to know. If I could divest Americans of their fanatic attention in this captured market, perhaps they will recognize some freedom in imagination. It's difficult to credit they are actually enjoying political freedom when the parties ping pong policies with the same dented balls. I will certainly not devote time to learning to read the law, but I do wish we had more stats from the Judiciary. Judges are still not bought.
If you haven’t read them, I recommend Jonathan Haidt’s “The Righteous Mind”, and “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman. Both are very well written and together will give you a set of lenses through which to view the moment. Oh, and this too by Taleb: https://medium.com/incerto/religion-violence-tolerance-progress-nothing-to-do-with-theology-a31f351c729e
Several years ago I desperately tried to stay awake through Haidt's book, but it was patiently and politely describing things that I knew intimately as a blogger who crossed over from progressive to neoconservative thought. I much more appreciate Haidt's existence as a patient explainer when people ask me specific questions about the failure of the Humanities in the collegiate arenas owing to his more recent book. I expect that I may have some future use for Kahneman's revered ideas, but Gladwell's summaries sufficed. When the next generation of social networks arrive, that will be the time. I have a great deal of interest in such things but my aim to to code first, think later. (https://www.mdcbowen.org/logos/index.html)
Taleb always gives me something fresh and deep to think about and I have been a fanboy for many years. I agree that people change religion rather than the other way around. Very few are devout enough, except perhaps the lost and thirstily converted for the reverse to be the primary case. And yet I remain struck by an axiom of my thinking about religion that is moves much slower than government which in turn is slower than politics all slower than commerce and fashion. That which survives is ossified as civilization and thus the principles of religion must be the truest (or most mysterious) tenets of all. One might call it conservative, but I think as such religion tradition should be one of the least disposable items of humanity. So it unnerves me to see the words of worship turned in response to popular demands when for so many centuries, they worked for the disciplined devout.
But philosophy works the same way and must bend slowly over time as our slow thinking reveals more than traditions might allow. All good.
The moment in view is done en passant. I need only a minimal amount of detail to digest what goes down in American politics. It is not a place for learning and there is too much other stuff to know. If I could divest Americans of their fanatic attention in this captured market, perhaps they will recognize some freedom in imagination. It's difficult to credit they are actually enjoying political freedom when the parties ping pong policies with the same dented balls. I will certainly not devote time to learning to read the law, but I do wish we had more stats from the Judiciary. Judges are still not bought.
Who next may be able to attack the Swamp? DJT injured it but perhaps encouraged it to become even more dangerous.