2008-09-20

Jonathan Haidt at TED

I just watched an extremely interesting video at TED:

Jonathan Haidt: The real difference between liberals and conservatives
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html

One of the reasons I find this interesting is that he actually does find some psychological/moral factors that distinguish between liberals and conservatives of a wide variety of countries. But he also introduces a prescription for getting beyond the sort of political stalemate that so often stymies any effort to treat problems in a mature, problem solving way instead of a partisan and backbiting way. And, oddly, his prescription sounds like something I've heard before:

"Judge not that you be not judged."