Father Nick Blaha on Nostr: I think you are on to something, but it’s been happening since long before our ...
I think you are on to something, but it’s been happening since long before our time. Have you ever read any Thomas Sowell? He was on to this in the 80s, and traces its origins back centuries:
“A Conflict of Visions (1987) represents Sowell’s best effort to put his ideas in dialogue with their opposite. He begins the book by observing a strange fact: people predictably line up on opposite sides of political issues that seemingly have nothing in common. For instance, knowing someone’s position on climate change somehow allows you to predict their views on taxing the rich, gun control, and abortion. It’s tempting to dismiss this as mere political tribalism. But Sowell contends that more is at work: that there are two fundamental ways of thinking about the social world, two sets of basic assumptions about human nature, and two conflicting ‘visions,’ from which most political disagreements follow. He names these the constrained vision and the unconstrained vision.”
It is the kind of insight that helps to explain the things you are noticing.
Read the rest here:
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-nonconformist
A more scholarly take:
https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/1987/11/cj7n2-17.pdf
“A Conflict of Visions (1987) represents Sowell’s best effort to put his ideas in dialogue with their opposite. He begins the book by observing a strange fact: people predictably line up on opposite sides of political issues that seemingly have nothing in common. For instance, knowing someone’s position on climate change somehow allows you to predict their views on taxing the rich, gun control, and abortion. It’s tempting to dismiss this as mere political tribalism. But Sowell contends that more is at work: that there are two fundamental ways of thinking about the social world, two sets of basic assumptions about human nature, and two conflicting ‘visions,’ from which most political disagreements follow. He names these the constrained vision and the unconstrained vision.”
It is the kind of insight that helps to explain the things you are noticing.
Read the rest here:
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-nonconformist
A more scholarly take:
https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/1987/11/cj7n2-17.pdf