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With your permission, may I inquire on opinions and discussion of root
causes of the sociological developments in societies of the current suite
of what are easily - and not so easily recognized as societal
dysfunctions.  My intended scope is US-centric, but need not be. I'll
initiate by listing a few issues.  Which ones are causal? Which one are
symptomatic?

*Profit interesting bending Science (esp. medicine and psychiatry)
*Financial perverse incentives distorting Science
*Lack of meaningful ROI of research translating to effective solutions
*"Left vs. Right focus" masking top-down control (cf. middle-out or
bottom-up) solutions

Please add to/extend as you like.

We need not agree, of course, but I am keen to see perspectives and learn
of voices willing to try to *name the issue* and offer a definition.

It need not be an "ism", but I suspect it is on the scale of "*Imperialism,
Nazism, Communism*".

Lately I've been enamored with the phrase "Process Solution"; ie.,
the identification of an ever-improving process that makes the
identification and adoption of a viable and helpful (valuable) solution
more likely - so if you have process solutions in mind and if they help
w/finding a name due to the present absence of that solution, I'd be eager
to learn of them.

James Lyons-Weiler, PhD


On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 5:56 PM Chance McDermott <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> I support Gregg in this!
>
> =Chance
>
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 10:39 AM Cole Butler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Well said, Gregg.
>>
>> I’ve not been following this Pinker controversy (nor am I acquainted with
>> his work), but your points regarding contextualization of the broader
>> socio-political landscape of the US (and West, more broadly) and the
>> idealogical protection of egos so as to avoid offense both speak to me.
>> Within the smaller circles of my work, I’ve lately seen the science and
>> greater mission of our work threatened to be crumbled under the fear of
>> offending some big personalities. This is quite worrisome from my position,
>> as others seem to be apt to deferring these feelings toward me. I hope
>> that, within the academy and more broadly, we can work to be able to speak
>> freely [even when it threatens offending others (I’m not speaking here in
>> the context of race)] in the name of the ultimate ideal of helping others
>> through high-quality work.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Cole
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 8:28 AM Michael Mascolo <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Good, courageous work, Gregg.
>>>
>>> M.
>>>
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>>> On Jul 19, 2020, at 8:18 AM, Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <
>>> [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi TOK Folks,
>>> I thought I would share this post I made this morning on the metamodern
>>> forum I am on:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>> I think when discussing these issues, such as the petition against
>>> Pinker, the Harper letter, and so forth, it is crucial to distinguish the
>>> setting/community/cultural context folks have in mind. For example, there
>>> is the United States as a whole. That might be one contextual setting. When
>>> folks look at the US as a whole, then you see Donald Trump as the President
>>> and you see the history of slavery and Jim Crow and the remarkable
>>> inequities, and much like *@handrews*
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>>>  argues, the general complaints about word usage or political positions
>>> seem small potatoes.
>>> However, when we flip the context to inside the academia or leftist
>>> media centers or other left-leaning ideological contexts, the issue is VERY
>>> different. I can tell you, I live in the academy, in the social sciences
>>> (professional psychology) and the climate here is very different. We are
>>> MUCH closer to thought/language police than people seem to realize. Virtue
>>> signaling is everywhere, as is an almost Orwellian use of language
>>> regarding justice and morality (i.e., more often than not in such contexts,
>>> IMO, those who are doing the moralizing and shaming are not operating from
>>> a “higher ground”). Not only that, I believe much of it is ideologically
>>> misguided. Academics bending over backwards to eliminate anything that
>>> could be subjectively perceived by a person educated in postmodern critical
>>> race theory as being offensive is not where real change is to be had, IMO.
>>> Rather, as I saw firsthand in working on the inner city streets of
>>> Philadelphia from 1999-2003, there are deep class/race/structural issues
>>> that need to be tackled head on.
>>> If one is situated in the academy, one should object strongly to the
>>> letter against Pinker. It justifies language police, which is a problem
>>> inside hyper-progressive systems and much of the academy has been (is are
>>> being) captured by this troubling ideology (*see the footnote on pg 122
>>> of this article I wrote*
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>>>  back in 2005). The bottom line is that we are living in massively
>>> polarized socio-ideological
>>> ecologies and because context is everything there are rarely general
>>> positions (i.e., Pinker letter was “bad” versus “an important signal”) that
>>> are defensible without specifying the context to apply to argument. Inside
>>> the context of academy, the Pinker letter is horrendous and the signatories
>>> should be embarrassed for their actions. In the larger context of a society
>>> that has elected Trump, it can be seen as a small issue that maybe
>>> oversteps but makes an important point on principle.
>>> My hope is that those who operate from a metamodern sensibility would
>>> have the general capacity to see that the extreme polarization in the US
>>> (which is probably infecting the West) is a function of inadequate cultural
>>> codes being defined against one another in problematic ways. We need to
>>> disentangle those conflicts, eliminate weak positions, and work to seek and
>>> create common ground based on a clear, rich sophisticated sense-making and
>>> deep value codes that can stretch across the socio-ecological levels of
>>> (in)dividual, dyadic, family, small group, community, state, nation,
>>> transnational and global.
>>> Best,
>>> Gregg
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