[HangnJudge]

Hollywood is repulsive because its filled with repulsive people.
We have people without values lecturing to us about values.
Enough of the hypocrisy.

What is seen in society now is a catastrophic failure of primary Virtues,
Gratitude, Humility, Prudence, Fortitude, Courage, Justice,
Temperance, Chastity, Charity, Patience, Kindness...
Replaced by the false gods of “Values”

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Hollywood is repulsive because its filled with repulsive people. We have people without values lecturing to us about values. Enough of the hypocrisy. —goldstategop

What is seen in society now is a catastrophic failure of primary Virtues, Gratitude, Humility, Prudence, Fortitude, Courage, Justice, Temperance, Chastity, Charity, Patience, Kindness... Replaced by the false gods of “Values”

The point of Haidt’s thesis in

The Righteous Mind:

Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

is the left is unbalanced, while conservatives value all the moral foundations. Well, his whole point is more like, “I am am atheist who wants to explain the world via evolution. And although I am a liberal, I perceive that liberalism leaves too much off the moral landscape. It is too simple, and I find that conservatism has far more explanatory power than I was taught to believe.” I recently read The Righteous Mind, and in it Haidt lists the moral foundations of conservatism (and their opposites) as

Care        Liberty      Fairness    Loyalty    Authority      Sanctity

harm     oppression     cheating    betrayal   subversion    degradation

Haidt suggests that Liberalism has two strains - now called “liberalism” and “libertarianism” - which split about a century ago. The commonality between them, he says, is that both liberals and libertarians drop “Loyalty, Authority, and Sanctity” pretty much off the list. The difference between them being, in Haidt’s telling, that while Liberals emphasize care first and do not emphasize fairness, Libertarians emphasize Liberty uber alles, fairness second, and caring is no more on their radar screen than Loyalty, Authority, and Sanctity are.

My opinion is that Haidt’s characterization of the difference between conservatives and liberals is (never mind his reasons) is spot on. A liberal is a conservative minus loyalty, authority, and sanctity. IOW,

Any conservative has to consider any liberal a cynic.

[minnesota_bound]

Gary Cooper:
[on Hollywood] This is a terrible place to spend your life in. Nobody in Hollywood is normal. Absolutely nobody. And they have such a vicious attitude toward one another . . . They say much worse things about each other than outsiders say about them, and nobody has any real friends.

[October 1947] I feel very strongly that actors haven’t any business at all to shoot their faces off about things I know we know very little about.