'Postmodernist theory tended to be a very blunt instrument, which resulted in the same general political points being repeated over and over.' Precisely. This is the stultifying orthodoxy at play. Those of us who value literature & scholarship generally must resist this.https://twitter.com/Gil_Ant/status/937280966602530817 …
I do! I co-wrote a whole thing about that. https://areomagazine.com/2017/08/22/a-manifesto-against-the-enemies-of-modernity/ … You could equally say that the right is, by nature, reactionary & its energy comes from fringes & moderate capitulate. In reality, we need both wings to fly & my values align with the left.
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Yes, I read that. There are problems mostly with mischaracterizing “natural rights” with “anti modern” sentiment. Once you accept that rights are granted by the state, the individual loses sovereignty and you’re on the road to autocracy.
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Huh? How does this relate?
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To “natural law” and pretty much the entirety of the Scottish enlightenment.
@JonHaidt work in moral psychology is pretty much on board that there is “human nature”. Natural law is the source of “rights that are not granted by govt. -
Of course there is a human nature. It doesn't necessarily lend itself to respecting the lives & property of other humans tho.
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Nature tends to kill other animals and eat them. In humanity, it tends towards killing them and taking their stuff. We have to reason this stuff out using consistent human needs & desires & our sense of justice & then set up systems to protect them.
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I suspect we come prewired in these tendencies and that reason only validates what our impulses want. We are tribal creatures, but I do think we get to decide which tribe we are in
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Well, yes, I doubt we disagree on elephants and riders. Just talked about this & Areo publishing it in couple of days. But we produced good laws & systems of ethics & government between us anyway. Not sure how second sentence relates.
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And “left v right” is different in the US than Europe and confuses the conversation. The French Revolution and Spanish civil war represented EU left right divide. The “right” in America is very different
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Well, that is why we talked about both the US and the UK. Your Democrats are more like our conservatives than your conservatives. But postmodern left & premodern right ideas are consistent.
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