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Wikipedia lists the author's "Theory of Enchantment Three Principled Practices" as: - "Treat people like human beings, not political abstractions;" - "Critici
by hprotagonist 5y ago
Wikipedia lists the author's "Theory of Enchantment Three Principled Practices" as:
- "Treat people like human beings, not political abstractions;"
- "Criticize to uplift and empower, never to tear down, never to destroy;" and
- "Root everything you do in love and compassion."
Which are right in line with other personalist (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/personalism/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/personalism/) philosophies that all seem to make the most sense to me.
I have never been very convinced that shame is a good tool; after the past 18 months of pandemic and 4 years of utter bullshit at a federal political level, i'm absolutely convinced of it.
- happytoexplain 5y agoThey are definitely fantastic principles, but note that a lot of people claim they are doing the first two while they are doing the opposite (on both sides of politics). Not that this is unique to these principles: There is always a ton of dishonest noise complicating every positive ideology.
- hprotagonist 5y agoI think kind of baked into the first principle is the expectation that these are "top of the maslow pyramid" kind of aspirational ethics. It's like this: we are going to fuck up. Given that we're going to fuck up, what next? The way to judge, I think, whether you're in good shape is whether or not you have a culturally ingrained mechanism for atonement and forgiveness, and whether or not that mechanism recursively 1. doesn't treat people like things; 2. seeks to uplift and empower; 3. is fundamentally grounded in love.