Thank you for this article and the "Moral Cultures" article. They have made the proponents of UUA-style anti-racism understandable to me. It all goes back to which axioms / premises you start with. If I and another person have different self-evident truths, it is almost impossible to communicate meaningfully.
If persons in 2 different moral cultures communicate, or try to, the effort is often unsuccessful due to different views on values, outcomes, and interests.
In Integral Theory, which I write about, when people develop, or mature to later stages, they move beyond binary, either/or thinking. Binary thinking does limit our ability to communicate across cultures, like the T-UU and V-UU gap you describe. But people who develop nondual, both/and thinking are able to process ambiguity, and paradox, and hold more than one worldview at a time. Cross-cultural thinking then becomes possible.
I appreciate the framing of UU moving from a culture of dignity to a culture of victimhood. Makes a lot of sense from what I’ve seen.
Thank you for this article and the "Moral Cultures" article. They have made the proponents of UUA-style anti-racism understandable to me. It all goes back to which axioms / premises you start with. If I and another person have different self-evident truths, it is almost impossible to communicate meaningfully.
If persons in 2 different moral cultures communicate, or try to, the effort is often unsuccessful due to different views on values, outcomes, and interests.
In Integral Theory, which I write about, when people develop, or mature to later stages, they move beyond binary, either/or thinking. Binary thinking does limit our ability to communicate across cultures, like the T-UU and V-UU gap you describe. But people who develop nondual, both/and thinking are able to process ambiguity, and paradox, and hold more than one worldview at a time. Cross-cultural thinking then becomes possible.