“Values” usually boils down to “you should harm the outgroup and defend the ingroup.” https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-pop-culture-obsessed-with-battles-between-good-and-evil …pic.twitter.com/SgrteTvVnf
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“Values” usually boils down to “you should harm the outgroup and defend the ingroup.” https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-pop-culture-obsessed-with-battles-between-good-and-evil …pic.twitter.com/SgrteTvVnf
Only read the snippet but the examples chosen don’t seem like us v them. More like collisions between levels. Especially with the reference to revolutions. The story is simplified but the lesson IMO is follow higher ideals not kill those who don’t get it. WDYT?
Hmm, maybe the snippet is not representative of the main point of article… which is that us vs. them was only moralized recently, and this was a bad thing (because it makes conflict nastier).
It’s pretty good, not brilliant, but has a couple interesting examples I hadn’t seen before
It sounds counter intuitive to me so I’m curious.
Most political fights now are notionally “about values,” but nobody on either side actually cares about them. They just want their side to win.
Pretending that politics is about “values” makes it much bloodier, because it allows you to demonize the opposition.
One current example: “Christian conservative” support for Trump, who obviously violates every aspect of their “values.” They don’t actually care about those “values.” They just hope he will be effective at harming their enemies.
(There’s analogous hypocrisy on the left, although maybe it’s not quite as flagrant at the moment.)
I agree with all that. I think it’s largely cynical abuse of communal values by those who can at least see them from the outside (rational POV).
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