I loathe right wing politics and don’t want to engage with people who hold such beliefs. Personally, I find seeing the other side of the argument and not dismissing it out of hand difficult.
We are indeed all stuck here for a while, so let’s at least do what we can to understand why we are so easily divided into hostile groups, each one certain of its righteousness. As he says in his introduction, referring to a plea Rodney King made in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots triggered by his own brutal beating, He believes that we are predisposed to not get along, but we are also capable of cooperating with those who hold different views to us in order to achieve a greater good. Over a substantial academic career, he has developed a theory of human morality based on empirical evidence and influenced by ancient philosophy, modern politics, advertising and soundbites.
Haidt, it’s true, had pinpointed the change as starting in the 1990s, but for many of us, 2016 was Year Zero.Īfter the last UK General Election, numbed by the routing of Labour in places long held to be its heartlands, unable to understand why people had fallen for Tory propaganda, mystified by a refusal on the left of Labour to contemplate why they had lost, I saw a number of respected journalists and commentators mention this book. Jonathan Haidt wrote The Righteous Mind in 2012, four years before many of us finally became aware that the political world had tilted on its axis and everything we thought we understood about the democratic process had unravelled. Tags 6degrees 20 Books of Summer 1001 Books Africa America Art Australia Autobiography Biography Black culture Black history Blogging about blogging Book review Britain Canada Comedy Crime Dystopia Economics England Fantasy Feminism Film France Germany Graphic novel Historical fiction History Horror Humour Independent Publisher India Influx Press Italy Japan Journalism LGBTQ London Mental health Meta Music Mystery New York Paris Philosophy Picture Prompt Book Bingo Poetry Politics Psychology Racism Randomness Religion Russia Science Science Fiction SciFi Scotland Short stories Six Degrees of Separation Sociology Spain Speculative fiction Sweden Thriller Tokyo Translation Travel United Kingdom USA Wales War Women's Prize for Fiction Women in translation Women in translation month Women read women
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