SnowDog Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 James Flynn believes in universal morality and thinks that the world is turning more and more toward it. Fascinating talk. https://www.ted.com/talks/james_flynn_why_our_iq_levels_are_higher_than_our_grandparents?language=en Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AccuTron Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 It seems that people are better able to handle abstraction, but seriously lack the historical/factual foundation to do so accurately. That's like accepting the possibility of a flying machine, but not knowing how to actually shape it. Crash city. Are we not seeing this now, one example being Syrian immigrants into Europe? In the old way, the idea of how to handle Syrian mass immigration would be a silly notion to even bring up..."Why, they're Syrians, they don't belong here." Which makes sense. No one would suggest that Swedes mass migrate to say Ecuador. Silliness. Not the conceptual abstraction, with some imagined reason, but the pure silliness of concept, as if to say that a person would put shoes on their hands, or want their nose a few inches higher. The new and current way of abstraction says, let them in, feed and clothe, etc. An abstraction of intention. Yet without the knowledge of just who the heck is coming in, the real demands of it all, the affects on locals, etc., it's a disaster. The morality is what, beat the crap out of your own citizens and country to be nice to someone else? Blurred at best. Abstraction. I'm reminded of an Ann Landers quote: "Don't be so open minded that your brains fall out." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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