I absolutely agree that Aristotle is right about telos. I would argue that moral beliefs are downstream from telos, and that because many people don't believe in telos, they look for alternative justifications for their moral beliefs. Social science has filled that void by inventing claims to justify beliefs.
There are progressive teleologies, but they claim they is entirely secular and empirical, backed by social science. For example, they would NOT claim that the belief in human equality is justified by a teleological belief in human dignity. They would instead argue that equality is justified because The Science has proven that racial/sex is a social construct and therefore it is illogical to discriminate between groups. Social science became the load bearing justifier of their beliefs.
Once the CRA was passed, it became the de facto new Constitution. It’s the single biggest error in legislation in our country’s history.
Democrats then figured out they could actually just buy votes from black people with government programs and consistent wealth transfers from white taxpayers to indigent blacks.
The future belongs to the people having kids. But to paraphrase your point on conservatives, parents don't stand a chance until they can protect their kids from media and government education.
This is undeniable, and it also means that the future of the US, to the extent it has one, is sectarian not multicultural. In other words the American future is not Brazil, but Lebanon, only with nukes and 57 times more people across a continent-sized space. Europe before the Peace of Westphalia.
The Great Cull in favor of the people with grandkids will take another 40 to 60 years to play out. I won't be around to remind everybody of how right I was, so good luck.
I absolutely agree that Aristotle is right about telos. I would argue that moral beliefs are downstream from telos, and that because many people don't believe in telos, they look for alternative justifications for their moral beliefs. Social science has filled that void by inventing claims to justify beliefs.
There are progressive teleologies, but they claim they is entirely secular and empirical, backed by social science. For example, they would NOT claim that the belief in human equality is justified by a teleological belief in human dignity. They would instead argue that equality is justified because The Science has proven that racial/sex is a social construct and therefore it is illogical to discriminate between groups. Social science became the load bearing justifier of their beliefs.
Once the CRA was passed, it became the de facto new Constitution. It’s the single biggest error in legislation in our country’s history.
Democrats then figured out they could actually just buy votes from black people with government programs and consistent wealth transfers from white taxpayers to indigent blacks.
The future belongs to the people having kids. But to paraphrase your point on conservatives, parents don't stand a chance until they can protect their kids from media and government education.
This is undeniable, and it also means that the future of the US, to the extent it has one, is sectarian not multicultural. In other words the American future is not Brazil, but Lebanon, only with nukes and 57 times more people across a continent-sized space. Europe before the Peace of Westphalia.
The Great Cull in favor of the people with grandkids will take another 40 to 60 years to play out. I won't be around to remind everybody of how right I was, so good luck.