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 Post subject: The Contentious Political Culture
PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:08 am 
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Anyone grab Jonathan Haidt's new book, The Righteous Mind?

A fairly centrist take on moral grounds and why one side seems to always be winning. Still dissecting it in my head but I am not sure how he deals with fairness between liberals and conservatives, when one side has a loaded hand of in-step sponsorship and the other side has to live with fair weather incohesive independents. Still, I might grab this book anyway.

A pretty interesting interview with Moyers is here:

http://billmoyers.com/segment/jonathan-haidt-explains-our-contentious-culture/


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 Post subject: Re: The Contentious Political Culture
PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:38 pm 
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Yeah, I liked Moyers response to his thesis... "mmm... maybe, maybe not." But Haidt does contibute a new and useful, if provisional, frame to figuring out why "the working class right believes things that are bad for them." It's kind of like the moral equivalent to compulsive eating. Morality that is obese, compulsive and life-threatening.

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