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Here's my lecture at @theRSAorg, on why a 21st C. enlightenment needs walls: to allow zones of civil society to keep their own norms. As polarization increases, the norms of activism flood other compartments, such as the academy. The ship may sink.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=605&v=o6j5aQhaQR4 …pic.twitter.com/QQxCHKGV6t
Maybe walls as damage-containment systems, limiting the spread of bad ideas, values, & traditions, could also work between geographical areas? We could call them 'borders' or something....
Indeed! Other than providing a way to test different political systems and stimulating the emergence of diversity, a world of independent nation states will also be less susceptible to memetic diseases such as the propagation of self-destructive ideologies and authoritarianism.
In the New Atlantis, Francis Bacon describes a island city-state dedicated to experiment & discovery. Its governing body decides which truths should be made known to the public and which should stay secret.
Does this make Neal Stephenson a contemporary literary Francis Bacon? Needless to say: The Diamond Age has its parallels to it.
How do we determine what is bad and good though, well beyond a biblical scope. History has shown that right and wrong is very subjective in some cases to some people. I agree we need to stop the ship from sinking just i wonder how in the best way possible.
The ultimate result of accepting the relativism at the base of most of this activism. Keeping out bad ideas also keeps out good ideas. But if all ideas are equal and it is only about civility, we end up in the current situation. No one wants to say ideas can be bad.
w/ lifeboats to mars
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