Controversial! (8-23-23)

* Road to recovery: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130767
* Ideas that give me energy: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130933
* https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=136900 Our Problems Are Not Our Problems, They’re Just Symptoms Of Deeper Problems
* https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=136247 With or without you
* https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=133894 I’m Dysfunctional, You’re Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help
* https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=133768 Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless
* https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=132822 Bypass your self-destructive tendencies
* https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=132737 A life that works
* https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130933 Bringing souls out of hiding

Your Hero System Is Your Morality And You Get It From Your Tribe, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=150319

We’re suffering from a decline in social trust brought about by the individualist perspectives of left-liberalism (which dominates almost all of our institutions) and the civil rights industrial complex which has brought unprecedented amounts of government intrusion into our lives, incentivized costly litigation, and diminished our traditional understandings of private property, the Constitution, and freedom of association. In addition, we’ve allowed in enormous levels of immigration. Put it all together, and Americans have less in common with each other and feel fewer incentives to bond. Given that the quality of civic life has declined, people isolate, and lonely people tend to be unhappy and mean.

I used to think moral education was where it was at, but then I noticed it didn’t have much of an effect on me nor on other people. Religious transformation also didn’t make much of a difference to most people I knew. What did make a difference was when people got bonded and got happy. I noticed that happy people naturally incline towards helping others and those with strong bonds to other people are likely to be happy while those lacking such bonds are always miserable.

Atheists I know with strong bonds are far finer and happier people than religious people I know without bonds. It all comes down to bonds. When we live lives embedded with other people, we’re shaped by those ties and we generally live in a pro-social direction because we don’t want to hurt that which is most precious to us (our bonds).

Brooks laments that Americans are “growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.” I don’t think the morally inarticulate part matters much. Decency does not depend upon articulation. The self-referential thing is the problem. It reflects an individualist and liberal perspective on life.

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