I think the days of decorum are over. There really is no debate about whether the gloves normally worn in civil discourse should come off. They already are. And the kind of ideological claims being made on all sides are becoming so outlandish that having a debate about them seems somehow so very yesterday.
I am a Peterson fan and think that his interventions into the public domain have given the present Woke Ascendancy something to worry about. Peterson doesn't just take aim and send warning shots. He plugs the targets of his discourse with the whole magazine, which is just the ticket and a very satisfying comeuppance for people who need to be taken down several pegs.
But the problem is that he has the usual free market blind spots, like climate change and maintaining a disciplined health emergency constraint on free movement to save the medical system from drowning during Covid.
And this is why the disintegration of the ideological center and its concern for not just civil discourse, but a preparedness to listen, intellectually engage and rationally assess arguments on their merits, is so very concerning. It can be so easily damaged beyond repair, which is what has happened. And while we can bemoan its passing, the damage is done and we just have to get on with it.
This is not the age of reasonable, but the wrath of God. We are all being affected. A lot of us have changed almost unrecognizably over the last 5-10 years and I have to say, it isn't an attractive look for any of us, including myself. The road to war never is.
The author writes in this excellent article: “Given our age, he was, of course, asked whether a psychologist or physician or nurse or lawyer should be able to say something overtly racist on the internet and then go to work the next day without undermining the profession.” The political left are vitriolic in their regard for white people and this passes muster. Regulatory bodies promote CRT. I think we all need to get less obsessed by race, more focused on free discourse, and minimize or subvert the speech police in all institutional bodies. Political correctness has addled democracy.
Agree wholeheartedly. It is a tragedy. We definitely need a return of common sense, to our world, and we need it to return sooner rather than later.
I think the days of decorum are over. There really is no debate about whether the gloves normally worn in civil discourse should come off. They already are. And the kind of ideological claims being made on all sides are becoming so outlandish that having a debate about them seems somehow so very yesterday.
I am a Peterson fan and think that his interventions into the public domain have given the present Woke Ascendancy something to worry about. Peterson doesn't just take aim and send warning shots. He plugs the targets of his discourse with the whole magazine, which is just the ticket and a very satisfying comeuppance for people who need to be taken down several pegs.
But the problem is that he has the usual free market blind spots, like climate change and maintaining a disciplined health emergency constraint on free movement to save the medical system from drowning during Covid.
And this is why the disintegration of the ideological center and its concern for not just civil discourse, but a preparedness to listen, intellectually engage and rationally assess arguments on their merits, is so very concerning. It can be so easily damaged beyond repair, which is what has happened. And while we can bemoan its passing, the damage is done and we just have to get on with it.
This is not the age of reasonable, but the wrath of God. We are all being affected. A lot of us have changed almost unrecognizably over the last 5-10 years and I have to say, it isn't an attractive look for any of us, including myself. The road to war never is.
The road to war is always noisy
with the barking of its dogs
and littered with sad protests
at its progress,
the anger that it fertilizes
feeds and nests
as all as one begin to play
for keeps
The drawbridge of their friendships
raised too steep
as all the bets come off
impossible odds
the stakes too become too great
no one can afford to lose their bets
and the fear of that
Turns to hatred of those
who'd make it real
takes over as the sun
on civil discourse sets.
And conscience turns to steel.
There is no good or happy end to this
For war must do what reason should
If we’re to salvage much for hope
By wearing down our enemies
Till they no longer have the means
To cope
Or die in the attempt
Not because we had to
But because we could
For salvation is as much
The manner of our death
As how long or how often
We took breath.
Sober is the mind that thinks these things
Knowing that the peace is stretching thin
Like skin upon a rotting corpse
That in due time will fissure and irrupt
All that stinks and is corrupt.
That sweet rancid aroma slowly creeps
Under doorways through the carpet seeps.
Every house upon the street
It will disrupt
And rage will have its day
To sound of drums and marching feet.
The author writes in this excellent article: “Given our age, he was, of course, asked whether a psychologist or physician or nurse or lawyer should be able to say something overtly racist on the internet and then go to work the next day without undermining the profession.” The political left are vitriolic in their regard for white people and this passes muster. Regulatory bodies promote CRT. I think we all need to get less obsessed by race, more focused on free discourse, and minimize or subvert the speech police in all institutional bodies. Political correctness has addled democracy.
Well said.
Professional action is rational 'social' action. The mode of orientation is
through a highly rationalized social system to ultimate value in which
purely technical rationality is restricted to the selection of means.** It
explicitly prohibits orientation to the situation in terms of both pure selfinterest
and the application or threat of physical force in the furtherance
of the system of ultimate value.