I awoke early this AM from one of those frustration dreams (you know, the kind where you're desperately trying to do something and it just isn't happening), couldn't fall back to sleep so just decided to get up. Fortunately for me, it was in time to hear Krista Tippet's interview with Jonathan Haidt. I'd hoped there would be a transcript that I could quote directly some of the great ideas he has about the psychological differences between liberals and conservatives, and how understanding those differences can help us understand each other, since our family certainly runs the gamut. But no. So I'll just quote from the blurb at the top of the page:
"When it comes to moral judgments," he says, "we think we are scientists discovering the truth, but actually we are lawyers arguing for positions we arrived at by other means." He explains "liberal" and "conservative" not narrowly or necessarily as political affiliations, but as personality types — ways of moving through the world."Please take a listen thorough the link above, which, I hope, will help lead us all to a kinder, gentler way of being.
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