Three Languages of PoliticsArnold Kling
Three Languages of Politics
by Arnold Kling · first published 2017
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…the end, you find those reasons unconvincing). Dr. Haidt has done reasonable job (as a liberal) of trying to understand the conservative mind. I also recommend Arnold Kling, an economist who wrote The Three Languages of Politics, and Thomas Sowell, who wrote A Conflict of Visions. I should also add that there is an increased intensity with some of the rhetoric, but I think that has more to do with people (on both sides) sensing…
on “The High Priest of Heterodoxy” ↗Arnold Kling's "The Three Languages of Politics" has a good answer to a piece of this puzzle. In short, the major political 'camps' think about events with a different dimension. Conservatives think in the 'civilization vs barbarism' axis. Progressives…
on “U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests” ↗Even the language that the different parties use is targeted at certain sets of values; Arnold Kling wrote this short book on the subject ("The Three Languages of Politics"): https://cdn.cato.org/libertarianismdotorg/books/ThreeLanguag... "The Righteous Mind" by Jonathan Haidt is another, more nuanced (and complicated), but extremely interesting take on the subject of…
on “Why I don't discuss politics with friends” ↗…than give to it. Maybe you should spend some time away from the news media and consider how we're all being bamboozled by the both parties, "right" and "left". Consider reading freely available "The Three Languages of politics" (summary here: https://quillette.com/2018/08/08/the-three-languages-of-poli... and enlighten yourself as to why the conservatives and progressives can never agree - because they're not talking about…
on “How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to everyday life?” ↗…political space for it to exist doesn’t exist. There is a refusal to admit the problem on one hand. And a vilification of the incumbents as idiots, or worse, in bed with the criminals, on the other. In "The Three Languages of Politics" Arnold Kling classifies three basic perspectives that can become central in a person's mind in such a way that expressions of the other perspectives are incomprehensible. The perspectives are described…
on “SF's crime debate turns nasty” ↗There is a framework I recognize as similar put forward by Arnold Kling that I think of often, the Three Languages of Politics, that suggests part of what makes political discourse so often fruitless is that the primary value axes differ for three major political interest groups: Conservatives: Civilization vs. Barbarism Libertarians:…
on “Vice Is Said to Be Headed for Bankruptcy” ↗