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1. Any piece that uses Haidt's "Coddling" essay early on as support is questionable because that piece is horseshit 2. I'd be very interested to read something
by ofcourseyoudo 2y ago
1. Any piece that uses Haidt's "Coddling" essay early on as support is questionable because that piece is horseshit
2. I'd be very interested to read something interrogating the Gallup poll quoted early... it seems to have interesting but vague questions like "Are you satisfied with the current size and power of the federal government?" or "Are you satisfied with the influence of organized religion?" ... but since people's different viewpoints would cause conflicting result-based reactions to those questions (if there was zero organized religion I would be VERY satisfied while certainly other people would call that disastrous)... then doesn't the Gallup poll at least partially become not about the direction of the country but how well the powers that be are "selling" the direction of the country?
- ovulator 2y agoTo address your second point, it is merely about satisfaction, not solutions or best optimal outcomes. The question is neutral to what the current state is or what the future state should be, only on their satisfaction with it. There isn't really a conflicting result if 50% of the people think we should live in a theocracy and 50% think religion should be outlawed if 0% of them are satisfied with the status quo.