Serfdom and freedom, part 6
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petrea_mitchellPart II summary: Style still grating on me. Maybe because it's so consciously written as a book that expects to be studied by college students. There's even a summary at the end of each chapter.
Chapter 6: Introduces norms, i.e., the things we do because we generally agree they should be done, not because we're being coerced to.
Chapter 7: So how are norms inculcated? By a mixture of schooling, culture, and media. Media which is controlled more and more by the very rich and thus can promulgate norms which the very rich approve of.
Chapter 8: Now into tolerance and the limits thereof. Two critical distinctions:
I.e. the separate domains of science and religion, and stuff you don't police in your community code of conduct vs. stuff you do.
Such a short section, and it felt like such a slog. But Part III, the rest of the book, is titled "What kind of economy promotes a good, just, and free society?" and please let it be as interesting as that sounds.
Chapter 6: Introduces norms, i.e., the things we do because we generally agree they should be done, not because we're being coerced to.
Chapter 7: So how are norms inculcated? By a mixture of schooling, culture, and media. Media which is controlled more and more by the very rich and thus can promulgate norms which the very rich approve of.
Chapter 8: Now into tolerance and the limits thereof. Two critical distinctions:
The first is between ideas that can be verified and those that are metaphysical and cannot be verified; and the second is between thought and action.
I.e. the separate domains of science and religion, and stuff you don't police in your community code of conduct vs. stuff you do.
Such a short section, and it felt like such a slog. But Part III, the rest of the book, is titled "What kind of economy promotes a good, just, and free society?" and please let it be as interesting as that sounds.
