David W. (davewhittle) reviewed KinderGarden Of Eden: How the Modern Liberal Thinks (Volume 1) on + 2 more book reviews
This book represents an amazing achievement in understanding and describing modern progressive ideology.
Obviously, any book that purports to describe the thinking of a group of people is going to somewhat miss the mark when it comes to describing the thinking of individuals within the group, but Sayet even makes note of that as he makes a strong case for his thesis that the progressive refusal to discriminate leads to predictable responses by the progressive community as a whole: siding with failure and pulling down the successful.
In other words, in complete opposition of the scientific method or any other objective means of determining right-minded policies, approaches, perspectives, and behaviors.
Although the book doesn't refer to Moral Foundation Theory (see http://www.moralfoundations.org/ ), Sayet's conclusions and reasoning are supported by the findings that self-described liberals operate using a limited subset of the foundations for moral reasoning (care/harm and fairness/cheating), while conservatives are more likely to embrace and balance the entire range (adding liberty/oppression, loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, and sanctity/degradation) in their moral reasoning.
Brilliant book - highly recommended.
Obviously, any book that purports to describe the thinking of a group of people is going to somewhat miss the mark when it comes to describing the thinking of individuals within the group, but Sayet even makes note of that as he makes a strong case for his thesis that the progressive refusal to discriminate leads to predictable responses by the progressive community as a whole: siding with failure and pulling down the successful.
In other words, in complete opposition of the scientific method or any other objective means of determining right-minded policies, approaches, perspectives, and behaviors.
Although the book doesn't refer to Moral Foundation Theory (see http://www.moralfoundations.org/ ), Sayet's conclusions and reasoning are supported by the findings that self-described liberals operate using a limited subset of the foundations for moral reasoning (care/harm and fairness/cheating), while conservatives are more likely to embrace and balance the entire range (adding liberty/oppression, loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, and sanctity/degradation) in their moral reasoning.
Brilliant book - highly recommended.
