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11-12-2018, 11:15 AM
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
...Feel the breeze.
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it was meta.
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11-12-2018, 11:37 AM
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Moderasaurus Rex
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Re: For Ty
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You asked me for a decent outline of Lukainoff's and Haidt's book. I offered what I thought were decent ones which covered the main arguments of the book. Here's a much better one: https://quillette.com/2018/10/14/mor...oned-critique/
Pardon the framing of the piece, to the extent it responds to a less than stellar critique of the book by someone named Weigel. I think it still gets the outlined main ideas of the book across.
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Nothing in that review -- the brief description of the big ideas in the book, the critique by this Weigel person, the response to the critique -- says anything useful, as far as I can tell. The Great Untruths are hard to argue with, but the idea that they capture something important about the way some set of people is thinking -- that seems silly.
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In the book, we outline three misguided principles (“Great Untruths”) that form the foundation of the new moral culture we are seeing on some college campuses:
The Untruth of Fragility: What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker.
The Untruth of Emotional Reasoning: Always trust your feelings.
The Untruth of Us Versus Them: Life is a battle between good people and evil people.
We also trace six explanatory threads—cultural trends and practices that explain why this new moral culture, which we call “safetyism,” seemed to emerge so rapidly between 2013 and 2015:
Rising teen depression and anxiety.
The damaging effects of overprotection and social media.
The loss of play in childhood.
The polarization of the country.
New ideas about justice.
The bureaucratization of higher education.
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It's not that any of this is wrong, it's that it feels manufactured and irrelevant.
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11-12-2018, 12:19 PM
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#4023
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
it was meta.
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I'd analogize it to Dave Parker flailing at a slider and falling down on home plate.
(Maybe that's a bit harsh.)
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11-12-2018, 12:28 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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11-12-2018, 12:56 PM
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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so? that's like me confusing GGG and Sgt. Club. Maybe I should know the difference, but also rans in my dusty rearview all look the same.
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11-12-2018, 01:59 PM
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
so? that's like me confusing GGG and Sgt. Club. Maybe I should know the difference, but also rans in my dusty rearview all look the same.
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He thought the Canadians burned the White House: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44394156
And he thinks if you exercise, you shorten your life by expending more quickly a finite store of energy: https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/polit...ise/index.html
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11-12-2018, 05:34 PM
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
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I've heard T say basically the exact same thing to explain the weight gain; first connection we can make to tie him to Trump's bandwagon?
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11-13-2018, 04:16 PM
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
I've heard T say basically the exact same thing to explain the weight gain; first connection we can make to tie him to Trump's bandwagon?
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Maybe it's me, but I really don't get your sense of humor. I don't even know what this means.
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11-13-2018, 08:51 PM
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Maybe it's me, but I really don't get your sense of humor. I don't even know what this means.
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It isn't you.
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11-13-2018, 10:02 PM
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Icky Thump
It isn't you.
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I’m an enigma?
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11-14-2018, 09:40 AM
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Re: We are all Slave now.
I was musing that one could tie Andy Kaufman to President Trump, like maybe Andy IS alive? I googled to see if they have ever been photographed together- no photos, but Newsweek had published the same riff a few years ago. I do IP- I know nothing is ever 100% new, still it hurts to see this was derivative.
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11-14-2018, 11:16 AM
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
I was musing that one could tie Andy Kaufman to President Trump, like maybe Andy IS alive? I googled to see if they have ever been photographed together- no photos, but Newsweek had published the same riff a few years ago. I do IP- I know nothing is ever 100% new, still it hurts to see this was derivative.
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Have you tried using “Tony Clifton”? That’d be the alter ego suited to a meeting with Trump, no?
I think Tony even loved pro wrestling.
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11-14-2018, 11:18 AM
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#4033
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Icky Thump
It isn't you.
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Srsly? How could you both miss that joke?
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11-14-2018, 03:33 PM
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#4034
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Moderasaurus Rex
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Re: We are all Slave now.
Good for Fox News for supporting CNN's lawsuit over Acosta.
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11-14-2018, 05:23 PM
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#4035
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Moderasaurus Rex
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Re: We are all Slave now.
Among the three-fourths of Americans who are NOT white evangelicals, Democrats won 66/32.
https://twitter.com/ed_kilgore/statu...20439817252864
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