Sam Pearson

@RubenLaukkonen Beautiful read mate! #GuruLaukkonen

Abstraction and the origin of evil: Where I disagree with Jordan Peterson In this article, I wrote about what I consider to underlie the capacity for evil. I think it’s one of the more important things I have to say, so I hope you’ll read it. Here’s a taste: “…this is where I tend to diverge from people like Jordan Peterson who are obsessed with defining a set of abstractions to save humanity, but in so doing create themselves all kinds of new enemies and opportunities for hate. The apparent light of a new belief system too soon turns to darkness. We have to step somewhere beyond, or before, the ideologies—all of them—and look at the persistent gaps in ideas themselves. There ought to be no possible justification for evil because we see that no idea can be placed on a pedestal above the suffering under our noses. We must be free of the capacity to stick to an idea at the behest of love, which is always moving, always ready to help reduce suffering rather than create it for an absurd cause generated by ignorant minds. Only freedom from the field of abstraction is a long-term solution to the problem of both good and evil. Freedom is a fertile ground from which to grow a healthy garden—a harmonious ecology of minds—because we are free to let the garden whither with the seasons of life, rather than force life to bend to our dogmas of a good garden. We can allow the ideas of ice cream, vengeance, discrimination, and all sticky concepts, to melt before our eyes if we know that they will no longer satiate us or contribute to our flourishing. Rivers and winds will always outlive and out-prosper mountains and stones." … Link below:

This piece was led by Matthew Hornsey & co-authored also by Kelly Fielding, @WLouisUQ & Sam Pearson

Super helpful video by the genius @D_vanOs about how to create huge or complicated qualtrics surveys. Game-changer if you're sick of huge lag Qualtrics throws up when adding heaps of questions. Please credit Danny when circulating :) youtube.com/watch?v=d-QIZQ…

Did the power of imagination make humans unique? I review The Creative Spark by anthropologist Agustín Fuentes econ.st/2nBfmif