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Hippiekinkster -> RE: TED: The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives (12/26/2011 10:05:57 AM)
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Haidt, in an essay in Reason magazine, wrote about how his ideas apploed to the protestors in Zucotti Park;
"Will this message catch on with the rest of the country, much of which also values the loyalty, authority, and sanctity foundations? If OWS engages in acts of violence, flag desecration, destruction of private property, or anything else that makes them seem subversive or anti-American, then I think most Americans will quickly reject them. Furthermore, if the protesters continue to focus on the gross inequality of outcomes in America, they will get nowhere. There is no equality foundation. Fairness means proportionality, and if Americans generally think that the rich got rich by working harder or by providing goods and services that were valued in a free market, then they won’t be angry, and they won’t support redistributionist policies. But if the OWS protesters can better articulate their case that the “1 percent” got its riches by cheating, rather than by providing something valuable, or that the 1 percent abuses its power and oppresses the 99 percent, then Occupy Wall Street will find itself standing on a very secure pair of moral foundations.."
He's right, I think. Some little soi-disant "anarchist" who was in Oakland wrote an essay about OWS and anarchism on Daily Kos. His "theories" were fairly quickly debunked in the comments section, and he lapsed into (relative) incoherence.
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