horribly true. usually higher education teaches people that there are no black and white answers but it doesn't seem to have worked on your examples. The local pub or bar is also a good place to meet people from other walks of life and learn about people outside your own circle. But for various reasons, many of those local meeting places are dying.
I'm reminded of a startling statement in the Talmud, Nedarim 40a: "It was taught: R. Shimon b. Eleazar said: If the young tell you to build, and the old to destroy, listen to the elders, but do not listen to the young; for the building of youth is destruction, while the destruction of the old is building. And a sign for the matter is Rehoboam the son of Solomon."
You can't get phronesis in a classroom or a professional echo chamber. You need to see the real world.
I relate to this very much. When I was like 12 I started listening to Rush Limbaugh and then over time more right wing talk radio hosts. This was mostly because these men talked about politics and none of my friends around me wanted to talk about politics and neither did most of the adults around me.
I developed a feeling of being aggrieved. That there was so much unfairness in the world and that unfairness was that working men that paid taxes were ripped off and illegal immigrants got to come into this country and were rewarded for it. Kind of like Miller. Thankfully I mostly kept these opinions to myself.
What got me out of these feelings and opinions was having a diversity of experiences and for being genuinely curious and wanting to read differing opinions. Mostly I found out though my interest in history that something the talk show host Michael Savage said was a lie, and that led me to question everything he had been saying.
What worries me about right now is how social media fixes politics to ones identity. What if social media was around back then and I made some of my opinions known anonymously that would have led to people insulting me and others cheering me on. My private teenage curiosities would have quickly become my identity and I think they would have been harder to shake and more solidified.
Agree 100%. It seems to me the tribalism now inhibits people from connecting the dots like you did with Savage. Tucker, for example, has even been shown in court to have lied to his audience for show ratings and makes demonstrably false statements all the time. I don't see his fans questioning him for the most part....
horribly true. usually higher education teaches people that there are no black and white answers but it doesn't seem to have worked on your examples. The local pub or bar is also a good place to meet people from other walks of life and learn about people outside your own circle. But for various reasons, many of those local meeting places are dying.
I'm reminded of a startling statement in the Talmud, Nedarim 40a: "It was taught: R. Shimon b. Eleazar said: If the young tell you to build, and the old to destroy, listen to the elders, but do not listen to the young; for the building of youth is destruction, while the destruction of the old is building. And a sign for the matter is Rehoboam the son of Solomon."
You can't get phronesis in a classroom or a professional echo chamber. You need to see the real world.
I relate to this very much. When I was like 12 I started listening to Rush Limbaugh and then over time more right wing talk radio hosts. This was mostly because these men talked about politics and none of my friends around me wanted to talk about politics and neither did most of the adults around me.
I developed a feeling of being aggrieved. That there was so much unfairness in the world and that unfairness was that working men that paid taxes were ripped off and illegal immigrants got to come into this country and were rewarded for it. Kind of like Miller. Thankfully I mostly kept these opinions to myself.
What got me out of these feelings and opinions was having a diversity of experiences and for being genuinely curious and wanting to read differing opinions. Mostly I found out though my interest in history that something the talk show host Michael Savage said was a lie, and that led me to question everything he had been saying.
What worries me about right now is how social media fixes politics to ones identity. What if social media was around back then and I made some of my opinions known anonymously that would have led to people insulting me and others cheering me on. My private teenage curiosities would have quickly become my identity and I think they would have been harder to shake and more solidified.
I am glad I grew up when I did.
Agree 100%. It seems to me the tribalism now inhibits people from connecting the dots like you did with Savage. Tucker, for example, has even been shown in court to have lied to his audience for show ratings and makes demonstrably false statements all the time. I don't see his fans questioning him for the most part....