@DL1BhTL7x8mzZeV 独立宣言中的 “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”就有功利主义和古典德性两种解释路径。按照施特劳斯大弟子Harry Jaffa的解读,独立宣言洛克式语言的背后是亚里士多德的古典政治哲学,或者说洛克本质就是出现在十七世纪的亚里士多德而不是什么启蒙运动的先锋。
A great piece on culture war! Conservative media can affect but never shape hearts and minds in the long run. What matters is taking back cultural institutions, especially schools and movie industry. Education on core founding principles is a must for generations to come.
“The new conservative media infrastructure is ideally suited to rapid-response punditry and rallying the base, but it's not really an alternative to the major cultural institutions. Talk-show hosts and bloggers criticize the mainstream media's excesses, but rarely do any reporting of their own. Conservative think tanks provide a corrective to Ivy League liberalism, but aren't in the business of actually educating undergraduates and churning out Ph.D.s.”
In the CRB archive, @DouthatNYT reviews Brian Anderson's "South Park Conservatives: The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias" and warns that the Right risks building its own echo chamber even as it celebrates the collapse of the old liberal one. The rise of Fox News, talk radio, and the blogosphere shattered a genuine monopoly, but parity in punditry is not the same as victory in the culture.
The danger Douthat names is cocooning. A movement secure in the knowledge that the MSM will always get it wrong stops listening to the things the MSM gets right, and trains its fire on straw men instead of liberalism as it actually exists.
Read here https://t.co/mNm6dlZaJb
工业革命之前,全世界人口还不到十亿,实际上直到 1800 年,人口才突破十亿。但工业革命以后,卢德主义者们要砸烂纺织机,反对纺织工业化,担心工业纺织机会让他们失业。那时候如果有人说地球总人口会突破 80 亿,而且生活质量更高,并且创造了更多的就业,是没有人会相信的。
在今天这个 AI 时代,依然能看到很多卢德主义者,担心 AI 会让人失业,会让人饿死,说明卢德主义基因是能遗传的。😂