liminal @liminal - 6d
> short education anecdotes that amplify the postmodern deconstruction of value... from Exeter Academy, the same school that produced Mark Zuckerberg and many other future business and social leaders... guest lecturing at Exeter to a large group... 'you are on a deserted island with a person you detest and whom you feel is verbally abusive to you... You know you will never be rescued. She injures herself and does not have the capacity to feed herself. You are a doctor with the capacity to heal her and feed her, do you have an obligation to heal and feed?' The overwhelming majority of the students said emphatically that one could not formulate an ought, any sort of cosmic obligation rooted in any ort of objective moral principle, which demanded that you feed the other person. Anecdote Three: One of us was giving a guest lecture at the Bronx High School of Science. We asked the students to declare that Hitler is bad and that Mother Teresa is good. The overwhelming majority of them balked, declaring that there is no intrinsic sense of good and bad. Everything is socially constructed and context-bound.... When value disappears, eros evaporates and all that remains is polarization and rivalrous conflict, the success story of hypermodernity, in all its distressing disguises. - First Principles & First Values https://amplifypublishinggroup.com/product/nonfiction/politics-and-current-affairs/general-politics-and-current-affairs/first-principles-and-first-values/
