It is time we had an interdisciplinary world. It is time we created a society where all levels of thinking and society can work together – so the individual psychologies can live together in a more
integrated society. Interdisciplinary thinking tries to promote environmentalism, capitalism, religion, heroic
individualism, and families simultaneously. Beauty, truth, and ethics are united.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
For Shame
Megan McArdle on shame. I find it interesting that this issue is starting to come up more and more
The difference is that the Left, as this article makes clear, make guilt and shame collective. It's not about anything you personally have done, but what your race, group, ancestors, etc. have done. The combine guilt and shame with identity politics. I reject the very premise that there can or should be collective suilt or shame for the very same reason I reject collective virtues. The same people who argue that whites should feel collective guilt also argue that to believe whites are collectively virtuous is racist. The fact, is both beliefs are racist.
It seems to be coming up in leftist discourse as well, although IMO it misses the point somewhat.
ReplyDeleteThe difference is that the Left, as this article makes clear, make guilt and shame collective. It's not about anything you personally have done, but what your race, group, ancestors, etc. have done. The combine guilt and shame with identity politics. I reject the very premise that there can or should be collective suilt or shame for the very same reason I reject collective virtues. The same people who argue that whites should feel collective guilt also argue that to believe whites are collectively virtuous is racist. The fact, is both beliefs are racist.
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