TED Talk: The Real Difference between Liberals and Conservatives
I love, love, LOVE the TED talks. I’ve yet to watch one that wasn’t absolutely fascinating and mind-opening in some way or form. Jonathan Haidt’s The Read Difference Between Liberals and Conservatives is no different. It’s the sort of open and honest talk on a subject that effects all of us almost every day that both sides of the equation could watch and nod their heads to. Definitely worth freeing up twenty minutes (and your undivided attention) to check out.
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that was pretty awesome, although i’ve been saying things like that for years, just not as intelligently.
i look the test too…i just don’t know how to post images…
I, admittedly, haven’t been and it was a real sort of eye opener to have it broken down like that.
As for posting an image, I really should have put that in the formatting instruction, huh?
I can’t watch this at work, but out of curiosity is it something that talks about republican versus liberal philosophy in the classical theoretical sense or in the current political sense. The former would be interesting to me because if it addresses an actual philosophical divide (ie. more government vs. less, military intervention vs. isolationism, free market vs. regulation, etc.) of which even I admittedly struggle with when it comes to self identification. However the latter would be insufferable if it’s just another attempt to do the whole “Both sides are guilty of….” routine that does nothing but muddy all the water and gives people an excuse to just not give a fuck and tune out from the whole thing.
It’s neither, really, and It’s the exact opposite of the last thing you mention. It’s a 20 minutes talk on the moral psychologies of both groups and where they come from.
O.K. I’ll have to check it out when I get home then.