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Why Conservatives Can’t Understand Liberals (and Vice Versa) | Intellectual Takeout
Although this is not the first time the idea has been stated online, it seems to be a relative newbie on the intellectual scene.
The idea states that we are born with our moral foundation already in place, and that this moral foundation appears in the form of politics later on in life because our political decisions are based on our moral values. The theory states that liberals lack a few of the pillars of the basic moral foundation. Out of the five pillars, conservative thinkers have all five, while liberals only have two. Anybody who refuses to accept this genetic component of human values is living, it is said, in a "moral Matrix."
I don't know if I buy into the theory 100%. It could be that liberals simply have different values, that they don't lack three of the foundational values but simply don't practice the ones conservatives practice.
The basic assumptions underlying the two mindsets can be split into, 1. society must not change (traditional value systems, law and order), vs. 2. society can and must change, even at the risk of causing complete social breakdown (Progressivism). The author of this view believes that conservatives possess loyalty whereas liberals don't. However, liberals also possess loyalty, let's say, to a vision of the future, of a utopian social structure rather than an existing social structure (which they tend to castigate in as many dystopian ways as possible).
The author of this theory (who, by the way, is named Jonathan Haidt), thinks that liberals lack a sense of and thus reject authority. I find that to be true. These people, whom I have lived among and dealt with, detest being controlled or told what to do. But it is not that they lack a foundational value, it's that they possess a substitute: the value of individualism, of freedom from restraint. These are the Voltaires who live among us.
Haidt believes that liberals lack a feeling of sanctity regarding their bodies. However, they substitute this lack with a sense of sanctity regarding the external world of Nature. These are environmentalists who pollute their "temples" but demand that Nature be left pure.
I think this should help Haidt along with his novel idea.
Although this is not the first time the idea has been stated online, it seems to be a relative newbie on the intellectual scene.
The idea states that we are born with our moral foundation already in place, and that this moral foundation appears in the form of politics later on in life because our political decisions are based on our moral values. The theory states that liberals lack a few of the pillars of the basic moral foundation. Out of the five pillars, conservative thinkers have all five, while liberals only have two. Anybody who refuses to accept this genetic component of human values is living, it is said, in a "moral Matrix."
I don't know if I buy into the theory 100%. It could be that liberals simply have different values, that they don't lack three of the foundational values but simply don't practice the ones conservatives practice.
The basic assumptions underlying the two mindsets can be split into, 1. society must not change (traditional value systems, law and order), vs. 2. society can and must change, even at the risk of causing complete social breakdown (Progressivism). The author of this view believes that conservatives possess loyalty whereas liberals don't. However, liberals also possess loyalty, let's say, to a vision of the future, of a utopian social structure rather than an existing social structure (which they tend to castigate in as many dystopian ways as possible).
The author of this theory (who, by the way, is named Jonathan Haidt), thinks that liberals lack a sense of and thus reject authority. I find that to be true. These people, whom I have lived among and dealt with, detest being controlled or told what to do. But it is not that they lack a foundational value, it's that they possess a substitute: the value of individualism, of freedom from restraint. These are the Voltaires who live among us.
Haidt believes that liberals lack a feeling of sanctity regarding their bodies. However, they substitute this lack with a sense of sanctity regarding the external world of Nature. These are environmentalists who pollute their "temples" but demand that Nature be left pure.
I think this should help Haidt along with his novel idea.