The Age of Cretinism

Re:The Age of Cretinism by pjc50 on Monday August 13, 2018 @06:00AM (#17749071)

These aren't the same kind of thing at all, though. "Ethical consumption" is a bit of a mess and I would agree that it's vulnerable to becoming just another form of conspicuous consumption unless people are diligently self-critical about their moralising.

Migration, on the other hand, involves key elements of human dignity. The right not to be subject to racial discrimination (e.g. the bad old days of "no dogs, no blacks no irish" signs). The right to family life: to live with your spouse and children even if they weren't born in the same country as you.

People who are worried about e.g. people moving from Mexico to California but not Ohio to California need to take a look at themselves. Are we really saying that to avoid overcrowding and ensure access to jobs for locals, that countries would be better off with internal migration control? You'd need a visa to move to the big city?

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Re:The Age of Cretinism by brobdingnagians on Monday August 13, 2018 @08:28AM (#17749517)

I think his point is that when morality gets co-opted and redefined to be a mind-control tactic of the wealthy to get the poor to do relatively meaningless things for the agenda of the wealthy, the poor stop caring about morality. That would go quite well with the point of the article about cretinism being a disregard of morality in political process; though it would also turn part of the blame from the poor to the rich.

I don't necessarily agree with him, but it is a valid point connected to the article.

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