[ExI] memo

[William Flynn Wallace]

I loved the Haidt work until I realized that he seems to view conservatives
as using more moral dimensions than liberals and seems supportive of that.
I wrote him and expressed my view that some dimensions are more important
to conservatives than others, such as loyalty.  Liberals are less loyal to
governments and to people than conservatives and more loyal to ideas than
to people.  This time he did not respond to my criticism.

Haidt has revised his online test and I cannot say that I approve of the
changes.
 bill w

On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 11:15 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] memo
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> >…If human beings are still around hundreds of years from now, Orwell's
> name will too.  bill w
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> Thanks for that sir.  You made my day with that comment.
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> For a while, all the good guys were falling out of favor: Orwell,
> Bradbury, even Golding.  Now all three have come roaring back with a
> vengeance.
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> Here’s a fun one for yas: I was talking to a local who is in his freshman
> year at UC Irvine.  I asked what was really turning him on there (well,
> besides that I mean.)  He called attention to an English class of all
> things (surprise number 1.)  He isn’t even an English major, his major is
> accounting.  I asked what about that English class.  He answered with an
> even bigger surprise: the professor had assigned Lukianoff and Haidt’s The
> Coddling of the American Mind.
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> That a young person should be fired up by that book is most pleasantly
> astonishing.  I and my friends (all around 60) are and have been for years
> fans of Haidt, but young people tend to extremes.  I perceive Haidt as a
> moderate, or if not moderate, certainly open minded and insightful.  So we
> have this 18 year old who is finding a moderate insightful and helpful.
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> Conclusion: there is hope.
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