Toby Buckle
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first heard Oct 2018
last heard Oct 2018
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But that seems important to me for this reason: is we as America,
look at places like China or Cuba or the Soviet Union, where they have said we are not only going to have a new type of institutional order, we're going to have a new type of human being and we go that's crazy.
You can't change human nature.
We changed human nature.
The liberals who started America changed human nature.
And the way we view the world today and the way we interact with each other is because we are part of their social experiment that was done by design and with malice of forethought.
And that's an incredible thought, both in terms of our historical contingency, but also it means that we can design future people.
And that is a political precept I want to hang on to.
And if that we
we can redesign even the most basic axioms of our morality.
No.
On the other hand, it seems that there is a value that people want to see.
There is something fundamentally true and constant about human morality.
And I would sort of ask, what is it that leads you to want to hang on to that?
Is the claim that this is genetic, or is it more the claim that there are rules governing social behaviour that are rationally discoverable and are discovered by all people?
Yeah, I mean I think again I that can fit in with what I'm saying because if you take the broad genealogy of how belief systems have developed, then the person who lives in Alabama and the person who lives in New York, as polar opposite as they can seem to us today, are the two
tiniest splinters going off on a twig of the tree that is the genealogy of human thought.
These are the tiniest variations of what it is to believe in a good person and what it is to believe what a good society is by the standards of what people have believed historically, and indeed in some areas of around the world today, in that there's still a centrality of the individual.
The idea of freedom, of liberation, of not being dominated, which are historically contingent and unique ideas, and they mean slightly different things to the person in New York than they do in Alabama.
But yeah, I actually think a broad scope of the reading of human history in some ways could answer that in viewing how weird and distinctive, and in some ways strange and problematic and like off.
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