This is a brilliant article and I have a few more ideas to add. That conservative girls seem more stable should not be a surprise to devoted fans of The Righteous Mind. Being inclined to respond to three additional moral virtues than liberal girls is probably responsible. When your perception of your own identity has a link to your commu…
This is a brilliant article and I have a few more ideas to add. That conservative girls seem more stable should not be a surprise to devoted fans of The Righteous Mind. Being inclined to respond to three additional moral virtues than liberal girls is probably responsible. When your perception of your own identity has a link to your community, then your spirits may be buoyed up by a stronger, in group connection. Having respect for authority may help a conservative girl feel that her burden is shared by those who have more ability or power than she feels she is capable of. A connection to the sacred, via religion or not, may also lend her support that soothes some of her thoughts. The maintenance of any or all three of these moral virtues encourages more in-person contact which might explain the reduced social media usage by conservative girls. It would be interesting to learn if the reduced usage were from a larger portion of conservative girls that opted out entirely or if the same number of conservative girls used social media as liberal girls, but conservative girls just spent less time online.
I think, Bari, you yourself pointed to your faith and your connection to the cultural aspects of Jewishness as influences that countered those within the radical left environment of university. Perhaps a new drive to promote family values is in order.
An observation attributed to Plato: a consequence of great freedom is that a society fractures into mutually incomprehensible fragments. The Rosetta Stone that will allow leaders and followers to take into account all perspectives is the book “The Righteous Mind” by Haidt et al.
Those at the extremes are irrational but, perhaps unknowingly, depend upon rational products, services, and decision-makers for a beneficial lifestyle. Do you want a bridge designer to not bother to do the calculations that keep you safe? Haidt does a great job of skewering the notion that humans are innately rational, however that only adds to the preciousness of rational thought and its products.
Negotiation and strategy are rational processes, and those who are unable to access rational thinking will not find peace nor implement workable plans on their own. Have we not seen evidence from both the radical left and the reactionary right?
Competent leaders need to learn how to understand the fundamental needs of all people by listening but not fulfill their requests. Instead, competent leaders need to determine universally-beneficial solutions and refrain from picking sides and using alienating language. They will need to use their executive power to implement such universally-beneficial solutions over vigorous objections. Post implementation, this will not seem tyrannical if the solution addresses the concerns of all parties, and is communicated in a manner that addresses everyone on the spectrum. Using Executive Power to advance the goals of a subset of interests within a society is fuelling the fires of division. Have we not seen evidence of this as well?
This is a brilliant article and I have a few more ideas to add. That conservative girls seem more stable should not be a surprise to devoted fans of The Righteous Mind. Being inclined to respond to three additional moral virtues than liberal girls is probably responsible. When your perception of your own identity has a link to your community, then your spirits may be buoyed up by a stronger, in group connection. Having respect for authority may help a conservative girl feel that her burden is shared by those who have more ability or power than she feels she is capable of. A connection to the sacred, via religion or not, may also lend her support that soothes some of her thoughts. The maintenance of any or all three of these moral virtues encourages more in-person contact which might explain the reduced social media usage by conservative girls. It would be interesting to learn if the reduced usage were from a larger portion of conservative girls that opted out entirely or if the same number of conservative girls used social media as liberal girls, but conservative girls just spent less time online.
I think, Bari, you yourself pointed to your faith and your connection to the cultural aspects of Jewishness as influences that countered those within the radical left environment of university. Perhaps a new drive to promote family values is in order.
An observation attributed to Plato: a consequence of great freedom is that a society fractures into mutually incomprehensible fragments. The Rosetta Stone that will allow leaders and followers to take into account all perspectives is the book “The Righteous Mind” by Haidt et al.
Those at the extremes are irrational but, perhaps unknowingly, depend upon rational products, services, and decision-makers for a beneficial lifestyle. Do you want a bridge designer to not bother to do the calculations that keep you safe? Haidt does a great job of skewering the notion that humans are innately rational, however that only adds to the preciousness of rational thought and its products.
Negotiation and strategy are rational processes, and those who are unable to access rational thinking will not find peace nor implement workable plans on their own. Have we not seen evidence from both the radical left and the reactionary right?
Competent leaders need to learn how to understand the fundamental needs of all people by listening but not fulfill their requests. Instead, competent leaders need to determine universally-beneficial solutions and refrain from picking sides and using alienating language. They will need to use their executive power to implement such universally-beneficial solutions over vigorous objections. Post implementation, this will not seem tyrannical if the solution addresses the concerns of all parties, and is communicated in a manner that addresses everyone on the spectrum. Using Executive Power to advance the goals of a subset of interests within a society is fuelling the fires of division. Have we not seen evidence of this as well?