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Timothy Snyder calls this dream that people are in the Politics of inevitability. The politics of inevitability is a rough awakening for believers of any ideolo
by hayst4ck 3y ago
Timothy Snyder calls this dream that people are in the Politics of inevitability. The politics of inevitability is a rough awakening for believers of any ideology.
These are all things you will find people believing in the wild: Good outcomes for yourself is an inevitable consequence of a free market. Equitable outcomes are an inevitable consequence of liberal policies. Peace is an inevitable consequence of trade. Democracy is an inevitable consequence of being an American. Morality is an inevitable consequence of being a christian. Democracy and Liberalization are an inevitable consequence of capitalism. Rule of Law is an inevitable consequence of having a constitution. Freedom is an inevitable consequence of gun ownership.
You can pick your ideology/identity, and there is a good chance that there is a belief of an inevitable outcome of it, an outcome determined primarily by following the ideology, not doing the actions required by it.
People are waking up to the idea that outcomes are a result of actions, not beliefs. Democracy is not a belief you have, its a set of actions you perform. Democracy is not something you are, it is something you do.
You can only be a libertarian (the ideology, not the identity) until you understand the collective action problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem).
- schwartzworld 3y ago> Democracy is an inevitable consequence of being an American. Morality is an inevitable consequence of being a christian Ehhhh
- BLKNSLVR 3y agohayst4ck is pointing out how the belief is believed to work, not how the reality works. I was similarly cross-eyed at those statements until the point was made: > outcomes are a result of actions, not beliefs Just because someone identifies as Christian it doesn't make their actions moral - even though they themselves may believe that. Their actions have to be moral in order for the outcome to be that they are moral.
- hayst4ck 3y agoI fixed it to be a little less jarring (I hope).
- reaperman 3y agoMy understanding is that ethics are shared across a culture but morality is an individual judgment? So their actions could be moral to them, and also immoral to you. But the ethics of their actions would not be subject to much personal interpretation (within your/their culture).