214: The Righteous Mind with Rylan Bowers

01:26 - Rylan’s Superpower: Helping People & Giving Back to Community

• “The rising tide lifts all boats.”

03:01 - The Righteous Mind / Making and Rationalizing Choices

• Jonathan Haidt
• Moral Psychology
• The Happiness Hypothesis (The Elephant Metaphor)
• Social Intuitionism

09:11 - An Example of a Moral Reaction (CW Beastiality)

10:26 - Humans as Individuals vs Humans as Species / Increasing Group-Level Cohesion

• Homo Duplex
• Transactional Leadership vs Transformational Leadership
• T-Groups: Resources for Interpersonal Skill Development

19:43 - Bridging the Gap Politically

• Thinking Empathatically
• “Addressing the Elephant”
• CivilPolitics.org: Educating the Public on Evidence-based methods for improving inter-group civility
• How One Man Convinced 200 Ku Klux Klan Members To Give Up Their Robes

27:59 - Looking at Morality

• The WEIRD Culture (western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic)
• 5 Main Foundations
  • Care vs Harm
  • Fairness vs Reciprocity
  • Loyalty vs Betrayal
  • Authority vs Subversion
  • Purity/Sanctity vs Degradation
    • The Omnivore’s Dilemma
  • Liberty vs Oppression
    • YourMorals.Org

38:55 - Morality Binds and Blinds / Group Cohesion

• Haidt: humans are 90 percent chimp and 10 percent bee
• Sanctitity
  • Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain De Botton

48:37 - Moving Forward / Fixing Divisiveness / Welcoming People w/ Different Viewpoints

• Yin and Yang
• APA Convention Keynote 2016 ft. Jonathan Haidt
• Mani (prophet) / (Manichaeism)
• Anti-Intellectualism

Reflections:

Damien: The Happiness Hypothesis (The Elephant Metaphor): Reflecting on the elephant.

Rylan: Finding a middle ground.

“The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose; Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart; If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease.” ― Jianzhi Sengcan

John: The value of conservative viewpoints vs liberal viewpoints.

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

More Resources:

• The Ezra Klein Show
• inter-group civility (Large potential list of remedies)
• Jonathan Haidt: The Coddling of the American Mind
• The Political Compass
• Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives (TED Talk)

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