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Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior by John M. Doris, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139670:

* I regard this renaissance of virtue with concern. Like many others, I find the lore of virtue deeply compelling, yet I cannot help noticing that much of this lore rests on psychological theory that is some 2,500 years old. A theory is not bad simply because it is old, but in this case developments of more recent vintage suggest that the old ideas are in trouble. In particular, modern experimental psychology has discovered that circumstance has surprisingly more to do with how people behave than traditional images of character and virtue allow.

* It’s commonly presumed that good character inoculates against shifting fortune, and English has a rich vocabulary for expressing this belief: steady, dependable, steadfast, unwavering, unflinching. Conversely, the language generously supplies terms of abuse marking lack of character: weak, fickle, disloyal, faithless, irresolute. Such locutions imply that character will have regular behavioral manifestations: the person of good character will do well, even under substantial pressure to moral failure, while the person of bad character is someone on whom it would be foolish to rely. In this view it’s character, more than circumstance, that decides the moral texture of a life; as the old saw has it, character is destiny.

* Behavior is – contra the old saw about character and destiny – extraordinarily sensitive to variation in circumstance. Numerous studies have demonstrated that minor situational variations have powerful effects on helping behavior: hurried passersby step over a stricken person in their path, while unhurried passersby stop to help…The experimental record suggests that situational factors are often better predictors of behavior than personal factors, and this impression is reinforced by careful examination of behavior outside the confines of the laboratory. In very many situations it looks as though personality is less than robustly determinative of behavior. To put things crudely, people typically lack character.

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00:00 R. Daniel Sperber on True Orthodoxy vs. Ultra Orthodoxy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE0CDQ_TEXw

10:00 Doooovid joins, https://twitter.com/RebDoooovid

11:00 The Science of Consciousness (TSC) conferences, https://consciousness.arizona.edu/about-conference

15:00 Doooovid quit marijuana two months ago

17:00 Best Hindu temples in Farmington, MI, https://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=Hindu+Temples&find_loc=Farmington+Hills%2C+MI

18:00 Minyan closes for lack of air conditioning

24:00 Doooovid on life as a half-Jew

40:00 Judas joins, https://twitter.com/JudasMaccabeus7

41:00 Judas's Youtube channel, Guerilla Judaism, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLgGCISOp6Ytu1W6adwvAtw

45:00 Detroit's white mayor is on his second term, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Duggan

51:30 Would Doooovid bake a gay marriage wedding cake?

54:00 Jewish & Hindu differences and similarities

59:30 Hindu vs Jewish foods

1:07:00 Rambam's commentary on Mishnah Sanhedrin, https://www.sefaria.org/Rambam_on_Mishnah_Sanhedrin.10.1?lang=bi

1:15:00 Don't be a freier, https://www.haaretz.com/1.4955222

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Just For Today: "Principles before personalities." Many of us chant these words along with the reader whenever the Twelve Traditions are read. The fact that these words have become a cliche of sorts doesn't make them any less important, either in service or in our lives. These words are an affirmation: "We listen to our conscience and do what's right, no matter who's involved." And that principle serves as one of the cornerstones of recovery as well as our traditions.

What does "principles before personalities" really mean? It means we practice honesty, humility, compassion, tolerance, and patience with everyone, whether we like them or not. Putting principles before personalities teaches us to treat everyone equally. The Twelfth Step asks us to apply principles in all our affairs; the Twelfth Tradition suggests we apply them to our relations with everyone.

Practicing principles doesn't stop with our friends or when we leave a meeting. It's for every day, for everyone… in all areas of our lives.

Just for today: I will listen to my conscience and do what's right. My focus will be on principles, not on people's personalities.

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The Opium Wars: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=70956

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-crime-of-the-century-tv-review-2021

What would America have been like without slavery? https://www.takimag.com/article/alternative-america/

Peter Zeihan on the geo-politics of Latin America, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVrNWPltr6g

Covid deaths in 2021: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101932/coronavirus-covid19-cases-and-deaths-number-us-americans/

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Dr. Marcia Angell writes in the New York Review of Books in 2018:

The problem with these three books, and it’s a big one, is that they treat the Purdue story as though it were the whole story of the opioid epidemic. But OxyContin did not give rise to opioid addiction, although it jump-started the current epidemic. Heroin has been a common street drug ever since it was banned in 1924. Morphine has also been widely abused.

Nor would taking OxyContin off the market end the epidemic. The overwhelming majority of opioid deaths are caused not by OxyContin but by combinations of fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine, often brought in from China via Mexican cartels, and frequently taken along with benzodiazepines (such as Valium or Xanax) and alcohol. These drugs are cheaper and stronger, particularly fentanyl. Fentanyl was first synthesized in 1960, and soon became widely used as an anesthetic and powerful painkiller. It is legally manufactured and highly effective when used appropriately, often for short medical procedures such as colonoscopies. The illicit production and street use is relatively new, but it is now the main cause of most opioid-related deaths (nearly 90 percent in Massachusetts).

The steady increase in opioid deaths after OxyContin came on the market has been supplanted by a much faster increase starting around 2013, when heroin and fentanyl use increased dramatically. We now have two epidemics—the overuse of prescription drugs and the much more deadly and now largely unrelated epidemic of street drugs. By concentrating on the first, we are closing the barn door after the horse is long gone. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/12/06/opioid-nation/

Julia Lovell writes in her excellent 2015 book, The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China:

The missionaries became natural allies of the smugglers: when they first arrived on the coast of China, they docked among opium traders on the island of Lintin; they interpreted for them in exchange for passages up the coast, distributing tracts while the drug was taken onshore; and in the Chinese Repository, Canton’s leading English-language publication, they shared a forum for spreading their views on the urgent need to open China, by whatever means necessary. By the 1830s, merchants and missionaries alike favoured violence. ‘[W]hen an opponent supports his argument with physical force, [the Chinese] can be crouching, gentle, and even kind’, observed Karl Gützlaff, a stout Pomeranian missionary who would, during the Opium War, lead the British military occupation of parts of eastern China, running armies of Chinese spies and collaborators. The slightest provocation would do. In 1831, traders had written to the government in India, demanding a fleet of warships to avenge the Chinese authorities’ partial demolition of a front garden that the British had illegally requisitioned…

That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ and the American Historical Profession, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=138784

The Holocaust in American Life by Peter Novick, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=75654

Harry Levin. Portrait of a Scholar as Young Man, https://lukeford.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/kwg6tc1590003947.pdf

Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars, 1930-1990, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=136100

Jews In The American Academy, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=135502

Peter Novick writes: * Selig Perlman, a professor of economics at Wisconsin, is said to have regularly summoned Jewish graduate students in history to his office and warned them, in a deep Yiddish accent, that “History belongs to the Anglo-Saxons. You belong in economics or sociology.” The academic patrons of Jewish graduate students often despaired of finding them jobs.

* With minor exceptions (Parsons in the one camp, Pollack in the other), those critical of the Populists were Jews and from the Northeast; those defending them were gentiles, and from the South or Midwest. This feature of the controversy was well known to the participants and many contemporary observers, but was usually mentioned only obliquely, if at all. It tacitly raised issues of perspectivism and universalism which, for the moment, the profession preferred not to discuss openly.

In the early 1960s Carl Bridenbaugh outraged a good many historians with his AHA presidential address. In what was universally taken to be a reference to Jews, who were for the first time becoming a significant presence in the profession, Bridenbaugh deplored the fact that whereas once American historians had shared a common culture, and rural upbringing, the background of the present generation would “make it impossible for them to communicate to and reconstruct the past for future generations.” They suffered from an “environmental deficiency”: being “urban-bred” they lacked the “understanding . . . vouchsafed to historians who were raised in the countryside or in the small town.” They were “products of lower middle-class or foreign origins, and their emotions not infrequently get in the way of historical reconstructions. They find themselves in a very real sense outsiders on our past and feel themselves shut out. This is certainly not their fault, but it is true.”

* None, so far as I can tell, ever advanced what seems to me the most compelling reason why a group of the background of Hofstadter, Bell, Lipset, and their friends should have taken such a uniformly and exaggeratedly bleak view of the Populists: they were all only one generation removed from the Eastern European shtetl, where insurgent gentile peasants spelled pogrom.

* Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University’s Institute for Advanced Study, explains why anti-immigrant populism is more a European problem than an American one. “There is one decisive moment in American history — he says — which is not much written about, but which is very important and it sets up a contrast with Europe. That moment is the moment when the Anglo-American settlers, who thought that they were establishing an Anglo-American State, allowed themselves to become a minority in what they thought was their country. That happened in the course of the Nineteenth century, with a lot of resistance, resentment, nativist movements, hostility to immigrants, but it happened. And, instead of America becoming an Anglo-American nation-state, America became what Horace Kallen called ‘nation of nationalities’ without a majority nation and with an ongoing immigration. That moment is not going to be repeated in Europe.” https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=135940

00:00 HBO’s Small Town News works because it adores, not mocks, its cast and their commitment, https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2021/08/small-town-news-hbo-review/

03:00 ‘Small Town News: KPVM Pahrump’ Spotlights One of the Last Independent TV Stations, https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2021/08/small-town-news-hbo-review/

08:00 The “Objective Facts” of Journalism, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=140236

10:00 That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ and the American Historical Profession, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=138784

I found it interesting that ad hominem and argument from authority first entered English with John Locke and were not then regarded as logical fallacies, along with modern notions of facts/news ala "facts are statements of simple ideas expressed in language." When people discuss the news and events like Covid and public policies, are we primarily working out logical syllogisms or are we more like witnesses to a bewildering array of events and interpretations? If the former, then ad hominem has no place, if the latter, then it might. Given the way life works, it would be weird not to use ad hominen and argument from authority analyses in trying to better understand reality. Finally, almost everything we "know" about the world depends upon

referencing authority. I love this Peter Novick passage because it forced me to rethink my assumptions that the only honorable forms of debate are over facts and logic.

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Am I a laughing stock? The answer might shock you. (7-17-21) https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141266

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00:00 Why did Matt write this novel? https://terrorhousepress.com/product/dragon-day/

01:40 Matt's journey in Los Angeles

03:00 Stark Truth TV doco Supply, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RsdT5fADDU

17:00 Could a happy man write this book?

26:00 Novel's three main characters

31:30 UCLA in 1988, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCzkOHdFPGE

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49:15 Matt's experience of Los Angeles

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1:02:00 The current Pope

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08:00 That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ and the American Historical Profession, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=138784

10:00 Ad hominem, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

15:00 John Locke, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke

32:00 Argument from authority, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority

48:00 Bernadotte Everly Schmitt, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadotte_Everly_Schmitt

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