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Societies have ideas that often conflict

by PLEWEY Sep 6, 2023 3 Comments 3 Links
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Ideas are the foundation of everything humans do – though they often... Read more
For me, and others, virtue is the key to good ideas. Being and doing good, not looking for fault and failure.
Which talks more waffle – critics or their philosophers or their critics or their philosophers – reminded me of this great clip at https://youtu.be/3MWpHQQ-wQg
Ideas are tricky, here Zubrin discusses the effect of some of the world’s WORST ideas – the idea that there isn’t enough to go around – could be more damaging than good.
…. and the attraction of bad ideas – Burke discusses the attraction of the grotesque, the terrible and the uncontrollable, a stark contrast to the prevailing 18th-century preferences for the controlled and balanced.