HAIDT IS A KINDLY MESSENGER. LEARN FROM HIM OR LEARN FROM US UNKINDLY, OR FROM C

https://standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/jonathan-haidt-the-coddling-of-the-american-mind-a4261081.htmlJON HAIDT IS A KINDLY MESSENGER. LEARN FROM HIM OR LEARN FROM US UNKINDLY, OR FROM CONSEQUENCES.

—“Here is my interview in @EveningStandard, with Katie Law. I talk about “moral backsliding” –the way some of the moral progress of the last 70 years is coming undone:

https://standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/jonathan-haidt-the-coddling-of-the-american-mind-a4261081.html “—Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt

1) NO. We came out of a period of vast economic institutional, cultural, and genetic asymmetry and conspicuous consumption of compromises between genes, gender, class, and interests. We are no longer in conditions making possible conspicuous consumption of signal goods.

2) Under vast asymmetry, like when inheriting a fortune or winning a lottery, we can afford to transgress previous norms and traditions that preserved our common interests. Conversely, having SPENT DOWN all that accumulated capital, we now return to the historical mean: nations.

3) The left is by demonstrated preference cognitively feminine: consumptive, reproductive, maternal, the right masculine: conservative, capital producing, paternal. And women resist tightening the belt more than men do. So you will continue to tighten your belt and resist it all.

4) But cooperative necessity in social orders, like gravity in physical orders, is inescapable – and resistance is expected but ultimately futile. Your mistake is confusing PROGRESS with CONSUMPTION. And confusing OPPRESSION with DOMESTICATION.

5) And we have no choice but to defeat genetic and economic red queens. Why? Demographics is destiny. Your hyperconsumption has expanded the world underclass, reversing thousands of years of human domestication (economic and political eugenics).

6) And in doing so created scarcity of the very goods you seek to hyper-consume. Humans are not insulated from the laws of physics and our productivity, particularly by the consumption of hydrocarbons, not as the liberals presumed – infinite. Welcome to consequences you created.

7) I don’t make errors. Don’t bother trying to refute it. Try to understand it. Belt Tightening will come either by the restoration of nationalism, capital accumulation, and economic and political eugenics or it will come from collapse.

8) We are only equal in poverty. We are only prosperous in inequality. Because inequality is the product of defeating the red queen through genetic, institutional, economic, cultural, and normative capital investment in defeating the red queen in every one of those disciplines.

9) Jon Haidt is a “Kindly Messenger”, delivering a this information in sympathetic terms. You can learn from him. You can learn from those of us who deliver it in unsympathetic terms. Or from the consequences by the conflict you have created with your hyper-consumptive Privilege.Updated Oct 15, 2019, 10:08 AM