a miss on tactics,

   a miss on strategy…

Book review:

   Moral Tribes:

   Emotion, Reason,

   and the Gap

      Between Us and Them

by Joshua Greene

New York, Penguin Press, 2013

422 pages

“This book is an attempt to understand morality from the ground up.” Greene’s sincere aim is a bit too breezy for me.

Reluctantly, I admit I don’t have time to read a book like Moral Tribes right now. I feel like I’m too busy sticking fingers into the terrifying political dike that is threatening to collapse in America, indeed, in the world.

I’m interested in learning more about Greene’s approach in Moral Tribes: “understanding the deep structure of moral problems as well as the differences between the problems that our brains were designed to solve and the distinctively modern problems we face today.”

I don’t have enough time or energy to indulge Greene’s apparently sincere efforts to develop “a practical philosophy that can help us solve our biggest problems.”

America’s problems—Americans’ problems—are all too clear and at least one part of the fix is all too clear: there are lots of folks who can live with and live for the hatred they feel, and they’re voting; there are lots of folks who are afraid of some of the kinds of people who are getting elected and exercising political power to the detriment of most Americans, and too many of these fearful folks aren’t voting.

I think a dominating element of a practical philosophy for America right now is “Get out the vote!”

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