Another reading assignment. I know I know! But if you are familiar with Andy Borowitz, his son wrote a really good article on why the progressives have such a hard time getting their point across to nonprogressive voters. Again, it's long. Sorry.
https://medium.com/@maximraphael/why-do-progressives-keep-losing-195381096132
Coffee Thyme
To (over) simplify, openness measures your:
- Comfort with things that are foreign or different from what you are comfortable with
- Willingness to overturn existing structures and norms
- Desire to explore new hobbies or interests
People with high-openness:
- Like foreign cuisines
- Are more comfortable with diversity
- Are less religious
- Pursue higher education disproportionately
- Think that Coffee Thyme is art
People with low-openness:
- Avoid new or unknown cuisines
- Are turned off by symbols of diversity and cultural pluralism or change
- Are more religious
- Are less interested in higher education
- Think that Coffee Thyme is not art
A person’s openness is about that person’s view of change. It is not a proxy for moral virtue. People who are low-openness can be moral or immoral, just as people with high-openness can be. People with low-openness are probably different from you but do not deserve your condescension.
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Moral relativism makes a total nonsense of morality itself.
Morality is not an absolute. It's just a grey area like the rest of life.
This sounds very good. I will put this on my lunch time reading. (yes, I'm still working)
I'm definitely a high-openness kinda gal.
High-openness here... I have many family and friends of the low-openness variety that I love dearly and do not condescend to. They got there for reasons big and small and it works for them, so I accept the differentiation we have and revel in their otherwise Big Brains. They (mostly) accept me because I never judge, support their right to be L.O. and ALWAYS maintain a sense of humor about the 'agree to disagree' mandate. H.O. RULES.
But like i said Mike, if morality is not an absolute why bother to have it at all ?, if things that we still supposedly regard as morally objectionable now will be allowed and permitted 50 years from now why should we have to waste our time being offended by them now ?, you have to admit that there is something intrinsically absurd and bizarre about the fact that each subsequent generation has to waste its time being a laughing stock for the next generation specifically because of moral relativism as all the rules continue to go out the window and that brave new world emerges.
Morality is just society's rules at that particular point in time.
That's right, but if those rules are going to be discarded at some point why should we have to abide by them now.
You don't. Run for political office and change them to the new ones. Whatever they may turn out to be.
Thats the out-moded way perhaps, its just that now radical changes seem to occur without politics. For instance, new technologies are arriving all the time that are giving people ever greater freedoms with-in their societys and communitys (and, by definition of course, making them ever more contemptuous of authority in all its forms), freedoms that their parents and grand-parents could`ve only dreamt about. Suddenly, almost overnight in some cases, literally everybody has access to (or are indulging in) things and activities that only a few years before were regarded as unacceptable or evil, and everyone ends up wondering what all the fuss was about and why those things and behaviours were ever banned or demonised or not allowed to begin with, its ALWAYS the way. I admit You`re right Mike when you said that everyone is unfortunately trapped in whatever time in history they were randomly born into with whatever lies and hypocrisy and absurd nonsense happens to to be poisoning and plaging that society or nation or culture at that specific time, but technology combined with moral relativism is about to bring all that accursed lies and hypocrisy and absurd nonsense to a thankful and merciful end, because always remember Mike, the days of the liars and hypocrites and cowards and deceivers who unfortunately still run Hollywood and the media are indeed numbered simply because you cant fool all of the people all of the time.
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