Posts Tagged ‘politics’

You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I’d like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There’s only an up or down — [up] man’s old — old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.

This week, Jenn Mattern of Breed ’Em and Weep hosts a playdate for Johnny and Barack. Because she’s sick of wimpy moderators and anemic, passive-aggressive debates. Because she’s worried about making it through the winter. Because she’s had more respectful debates with her daughters in the upstairs hallway, over the back of a sleeping, farting dog.

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How can everybody think they are right, and the other side is completely wrong? According to psychologist Jonathan Haidt, it all boils down to which moral imperatives you, individually and as a group, value. The presentation has a definite liberal bias and oversimplifies the issue but the general premise is, I think, worth thinking about. What do you think?