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.The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Was watching The Colbert Report the other day and he had on an interesting guest who is a soci psychologist and wrote the book.
Pertains to our discussion, looks like a good read, going to pick it up.
Here's an excerpt from the book for anyone interested:
"Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.
His starting point is moral intuition—the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right. He blends his own research findings with those of anthropologists, historians, and other psychologists to draw a map of the moral domain, and he explains why conservatives can navigate that map more skillfully than can liberals. He then examines the origins of morality, overturning the view that evolution made us fundamentally selfish creatures. But rather than arguing that we are innately altruistic, he makes a more subtle claim—that we are fundamentally groupish. It is our groupishness, he explains, that leads to our greatest joys, our religious divisions, and our political affiliations. In a stunning final chapter on ideology and civility, Haidt shows what each side is right about, and why we need the insights of liberals, conservatives, and libertarians to flourish as a nation."
Trip on this. Make sure you take a few rips first.
Did that blow your mind? Then check out this movie.
What the Bleep Do We know? Its about Quantum Physics.
I was trying to introduce something interesting to discuss, obviously Quantum Physics isn't a familiar field to you if you believe this is this one man's opinion. The documentary link I posts has Nobel Prize winning and world renowned physicists explaining this. I think you would enjoy it, or at least enjoy picking out the inaccuracies, j/k just messing with ya.;)
I'm growing bored of every discussion being directed towards how it is scientifically inaccurate. I appreciate your enthusiasm for science, I too share many of your thoughts about science and learning, but this is a cannabis forum and I'd rather be steering the conversation in more of a cannabis related direction than a scientific one. Some science is cool, but sometimes its good to have a point of view from a different academic field.
I really do mean this in a polite way, a true question. Is there anything President Obama could do right in your eyes?Hopfully Obama doesn't get reelected, he is trying so hard with now being pro gay marriage to increase his votes, just like how he was going to decriminalize cannabis(that worked out well)
@sanvanalona
fuck no I never liked obama to bad I can't vote
thats quite unfair no? Is it the color of his skin? Just curious where all this animosity for him derides from?@sanvanalona
fuck no I never liked obama to bad I can't vote
I really do mean this in a polite way, a true question. Is there anything President Obama could do right in your eyes?