Leadingchurch.com

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/05/14/daily-202-trump-voters-stay-loyal-because-they-feel-disrespected/5af8aac530fb0425887994cc/?utm_term=.e82325bc682f

https://www.oecd.org/els/family/CO_4_4_Teenage-Suicide.pdf

When it came to “yes” or “no” about sex there used to be a simple rule. That rule was not easy to live by. Many found themselves breaking that rule, but that rule provided orientation in a very murky world. The rule was based on something that was not predominantly “feeling” oriented. It was objective. It was public. It was communal. It was religious. It spanned nearly all the layers of reality. The rule wasn’t itself life. The rule was dangerous because it was powerful. Many suffered because of the rule. But the rule provided orientation in a space that where there are many layers and many motivations and many consequences and many ways to do things that we regret. So what happens when the rule is gone?

Acknowledging the Unacknowledged Legislators: From William Wordsworth to Kim Kardashian

1 Morality is a matter of emotional reactions or sentiments and those who can provoke those emotional reactions are those who can provoke those cultural norms. (Rather than objective external law)

2. That identity is now understood in psychological terms. That sex is what it means to be free and fulfilled. That oppression is a psychological category. That politics, technology and the commercial entertainment industry all play key roles.

A pathway from William Wordsworth to Kim Kardashian

Rousseau

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/13/arthur-brooks-american-enterprise-institute-interview-218364

Brooks: I have a book coming out next year called The Culture of Contempt. We’ve created a culture of not anger, not disagreement, it’s contempt. And we need to strike back. We’re the majority. We don’t want this. Americans are being held hostage and terrorized by the fringes. That’s what’s going on here. It’s not like 50 percent of Americans thinks one thing and 50 percent thinks another thing. No, 15 percent on each side are effectively controlling the conversation and 70 percent of us don’t hate each other. I can ask any audience, “How many of you love somebody with whom you disagree politically?” Every hand goes up. And yet, you’re willing to have somebody, some fringe person on your side of the debate, say that your brother-in-law or your mother or your aunt is evil and stupid.

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