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The article argues the general conservative view of life, I believe. The valuing of customs and culture over the new. I can't say I agree with it, but I definit
by yan 18y ago
The article argues the general conservative view of life, I believe. The valuing of customs and culture over the new. I can't say I agree with it, but I definitely understand it. There was a great TED talk on understanding the divide and each viewpoint: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_mor...
- robg 18y agoHe is also pointing out that the Obama inaugural address sounded very similar themes. I'm not sure which labels apply and where.
- TooMuchNick 18y agoHas anyone ever examined how TED became so damn watchable? You could learn more by watching their free online videos than by watching the presentations of a dozen other conferences.
- joe_the_user 18y agoThe view is out-dated regardless and only matters for historical interest. Since the institutions of America have already been uprooted and remade by the generations of the 1960's, 70's and 80's, it moronic for, say, the generation of the 2000's to do anything but further remake them. If we lived in 16th century England, the question of what to do with our living history might matter.
- jimbokun 18y ago"Bankers, for example, used to have a code that made them a bit stodgy and which held them up for ridicule in movies like “Mary Poppins.” But the banker’s code has eroded, and the result was not liberation but self-destruction." Or, perhaps, to reconsider anew forgotten ideas and examine their applicability to modern life. The idea that "the old rules don't apply" had a lot to do with the decision process that obliterated Wall Street.
- joe_the_user 18y agoSure, the rules from five year ago might be bad and the rules from fifty years might be worth a look. But the rules from five hundred years - "take only gold, take a pound of flesh from those who don't pay" certainly don't. We've got choice now. No reference to "the value of tradition" can remove it.
- yters 18y agoWhat about our world today makes it so different from 500 years ago? Both are run by people, and people haven't changed.
- aristus 18y agoA big part is that more of us live longer, more healthily and are literate, traveled, multilingual, interdependent, etc. 500 years ago the neighboring village was often a major threat to your existence, crops, etc, as well as a possible disease vector.
- tc 18y agoI think it's about time that we renew the institution of capitalism.