Coleman Hughes: our moral confusion
I agree with Coleman Hughes that the images we see on videos such as George Floyd’s death tap into older images in a way that arouses emotion rather than logic:
An article written by Hughes can be found here.
Hughes is about 24 years old, which I find encouraging in terms of hope for the younger generation. Here he uses the kind of thinking I gravitate to: logic based on evidence. As I wrote earlier today, I think the majority of people are more than willing to ignore such things in favor of emotion. Our current educational system, the MSM, and social media platforms such as Twitter reward and magnify emotion over reason, accentuating and augmenting that human tendency.
[NOTE: Pure logic without any emotion can sometimes produce awful results as well.]
Coleman Hughes is a very bright and interesting young man, whose writings are mostly to be found at Quillette (libertarian) and City Journal (right-of-center); despite his being neither white nor conservative, he would probably not be published by any left-leaning platform. He (along with Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams) is one of the most eloquent foes of the “disparity fallacy”, by which faulty logic any and all failures of a black individual or of blacks collectively can only be the result of the malevolence of bigoted whites or of an unjust system perpetuated by whites.
I always argue that to solve problems and to be successful you must use your head and your heart. And you need to use them in the proportions that are appropriate for the situation. Not that long ago I would say many on the left understood that (even if they got some of the facts wrong or had blind spots based on ideology). Now it seems that most on the left are running on pure emotion. And there are those in their leadership who understand what a powerful weapon it can be to mobilize people based on raw emotions. The saddest part is it shouldn’t be so hard to get to common ground based on the principal of balancing logic and passion.
I find it funny that the media always portrays these black criminals that are killed by the police as saints and martyrs. Like Trevon Martin who was shown as a 13 year old instead of a big 18 year old. The media in this country is corrupt and dishonest.
No, Neo.
Pure logic is pure.
Your link to your past post about Peter Singer concludes “His seemingly-logical ethics is ultimately a monstrous one”.
Seemingly logical is not logical at all.
It is seeming, not being.
That podcast is incredible!
Coleman Hughes is a national treasure.
I hope he has a bodyguard.
https://babylonbee.com/news/black-lives-predicted-to-matter-until-november
My ex-husband, back when I was a very young woman, made us watch a number of those Faces of Death movies from the ’80s. I’m still not sure why, except that we were still young enough to think horror movies of the Nightmare on Elm Street ilk were fun and entertaining – or at least, he thought so and I went along. So even though I now know that at least some of the FoD movies were faked, I spent time in my early 20s watching snuff films. It was awful and I’m happy to say that I don’t remember much of what I saw between my fingers.
But maybe because of that, I won’t watch them now. I haven’t seen the Floyd video or any -literally any of the others that have sparked demonstrations over the years. It’s enough for me to know that a life was ended and to read about what happened (eventually – if there is one thing we all should have learned from these events it’s that the whole story is never known at the start) so I can determine how to feel about it. Watching it would only turn off my critical faculties.
No, my ex is not a serial killer.
From the Sanctimonious Clown files:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/16/fact-check-kente-cloths-have-ties-west-african-slave-trade/5345941002/
H/T Instapundit.
He’s right. Diversity (e.g. racism, sexism, classicism) breeds adversity. Also, a Pro-Choice, selective, opportunistic, politically congruent (“=”) religion is constructed on principles that are internally, externally, and mutually inconsistent. The confluence of this doctrine, philosophy, and em-pathetic appeals, is a first-order forcing of progressive dysfunctional convergence. Witch hunts and warlock trials only serve to exacerbate the problem. #BabyLivesMatter
Coleman Hughes is a smart thoughtful young man. He has a podcast and there are a lot of videos of him on YouTube. A very calm and wise, beyond his years, voice for his generation. Also, he is fearless. Good post.