No, Enlightenment 2.0 requires rationalist task forces as tightly-knit, dedicated, and fast-responding as religious task forces, better coordinated and better targeted, maybe even more strongly motivated, to do every good thing that religion ever did and more.
I think that Haidt underestimates the power of irrationality as a force for evil and chaos, which is a point that people like you make very well. The point he makes well is the power of religion to bring out our “inner bee” and just make us co-operate.
This underlines a point I made earlier about the power of generalists. If Richard Dawkins, Josh Greene, Jon Haidt, Marvin Minsky, Gary Drescher, and Tversky and Kahnemann could put all of their brains together into one big head, they’d have all of your insights plus more.
But they’re separate, isolated specialists, so the world had to wait for a generalist. IMO modern academia’s largest problem is its specialization.
No, Enlightenment 2.0 requires rationalist task forces as tightly-knit, dedicated, and fast-responding as religious task forces, better coordinated and better targeted, maybe even more strongly motivated, to do every good thing that religion ever did and more.
IMHO.
I think that Haidt underestimates the power of irrationality as a force for evil and chaos, which is a point that people like you make very well. The point he makes well is the power of religion to bring out our “inner bee” and just make us co-operate.
This underlines a point I made earlier about the power of generalists. If Richard Dawkins, Josh Greene, Jon Haidt, Marvin Minsky, Gary Drescher, and Tversky and Kahnemann could put all of their brains together into one big head, they’d have all of your insights plus more.
But they’re separate, isolated specialists, so the world had to wait for a generalist. IMO modern academia’s largest problem is its specialization.