It's striking how the left and right's analytical framework has flipped.
The left (@ezraklein) analyzes polarization via noncognitive psychology, long the conservative / anti-rational approach.
The right (Lind, Caldwell) analyze in terms of materialism, ideology, & class power.
The left (@ezraklein) analyzes polarization via noncognitive psychology, long the conservative / anti-rational approach.
The right (Lind, Caldwell) analyze in terms of materialism, ideology, & class power.
@ezraklein Ironically this trend may be downstream of the left's pretense to reason and empiricism. The last two decades have been boom years for academics working in moral psychology, social psych, neuro and behavioral econ, and the pop-sci books they spawned. All deeply noncognitivist.
@ezraklein The performative contradiction involved in reasoning your way to the impotence of human reason is rarely noted. "Haven't you heard about that one split brain experiment? Or the one where people were grouped into arbitrary teams and began hating each other? Scary!"
@ezraklein Maybe this is just a post-facto rationalization, but I suspect there's a publication bias for articles that make us homo sapiens look not so sapient after all. It's like a magic trick. "You THINK you made that decision, but actually the FMRI changed 10 milliseconds ago."
@ezraklein Applied to politics, obviously we support the party we support because of antecedent, non-rational factors, like cognitive biases. Except for me. I support what I support because I am an exceptional reasoner whose mindfulness levels are so high I was a beta tester for Headspace.
