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A stunning essay in the FT on the international decline in the ability to read, reason, focus, and learn new things.
It began or accelerated in the early 2010s.
It's hitting teens AND adults.
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by @jburnmurdoch
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Our moral thinking is much more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth.
Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt – What is the Happiness Hypothesis (H = S + C + V)? (JHA-11)
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Haidt identifies five important moral senses or concerns that he claims run deep in all human societies. They are: 1 Aversion to and protection from harm. 2 Fairness. 3 Loyalty to the group. 4 Respect for authority. 5 Not defiling one’s ‘spiritual purity’.
Bill Lucas • New Kinds of Smart
A very important essay by Jonathan Haidt about the damage social media is doing to us:
"Thanks to enhanced-virality social media, dissent is punished within many of our institutions, which means that bad ideas get elevated into official policy."
https://t.co/kKvyD1S4lQ
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