Robert Bronsdon (Hollywood Rob) July 2019
Jonathan Haidt has been gong on about this for the last couple of years. You can see him on Joe Rogan Experience, or Dave Rubin if you care to but the advantage of this talk at Penn State is that he had to prepare it for presentation to a university audience. He had to have slides and he had to show data. They expected it. The disadvantage of this particular presentation is that the AV was run by the students, and they really weren’t very good at it. So I apologize for the wonky AV, but the message is there. If you find the time to watch this, you will be able to confront those communists that you love to hate. You will be armed with knowledge.
Give it a shot. You might learn something.
If you don’t have the time, here are the three terrible ideas;
- The Untruth of Fragility: What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker.
- The Untruth of Emotional Reasoning: Always trust your feelings.
- The Untruth of Us Versus Them: Life is a battle between good people and evil people.
HR
I notice you have moved on from your anti-God ranting to being a keen observer and critic of evil at work in this world. Carry on.
I guess you didn’t see my comment to BB on the moon landing. But thank you for the kind encouragement.
I bet he’s just n0t been t-t-t-t-t-triggered!
I cannot believe it, i listened to the entire talk. It was very good but you get the gist if you listen to the questions at the end which is the last 20 minutes.
Great stuff- especially Party polarization!
Can shit throwing monkeys pretending to be humans ever get past the chains of political madness? George Washington was dead-nuts when he said political parties were a threat to the Republic.
A minor quibble around 22:40. Sure “we” were sold on the “end of history” around 1989-1991. That was mainstream thinking spoon-fed to the masses at the time, but thinking people knew the world was a hornets nest and it was. The carpetbaggers were thrilled to loot the former USSR and war, and strife, and history did not end.
Great stuff.
Gotta save Gen Z and the children or else.
Thumbs up on your post HR. It dovetails with much of what I care about. My mantra of ’empower women and protect children’ grows stronger with the evidence presented in the viddy. And it condenses many things we lament about the current state of things. It refines what it means ‘to empower and protect’. Too much protection makes for a weaker individual. Too little exposure to a real world leaves one unprepared for it. Protect against fragility becomes a goal. It gives academic evidence for what we observe, think and feel on a regular basis here on this platform. It allows me to believe my thoughts are more than an just an old fogey’s irrelevant beliefs and values.
My undergrad degree from a UC campus to your east, was in biology with minors in psychology and child psychology. And 35 years of applied psychology dental dealing with adults and children of all ages. In my days of adolescence, when the Beatles ushered in long hair for males and other tradition busting behaviours became ascendant for my fellow boomers, a complaint I would hear from those in charge, was that the ‘age of permissiveness’ would be the ruination of our culture. The complaints keep on coming. This viddy helped me see how my boomer white maleness is made into something bad via intersectionality labeling me as an oppressor and morally ‘bad’.
I have a bad urge to force several of my relatives to watch this.
Thank you for the presentation.
And maybe some of your old colleagues as well. I think that his approach is exactly correct, but it requires that you be able to remember why you came to your original conclusion, and to present that conclusion to others in a way that is persuasive. It is far easier to just remember that you feel a certain way about something than it is to be able to convince others of the veracity of your beliefs.
If you haven’t read it, his book, The Righteous Mind, is terrific. He explains why it is impossible for us to come together as Left and Right due to our instant snap judgements on issues and our brain’s habit of then justifying those snap judgements, regardless of facts to the contrary.