Nassim Taleb invented the word “antifragile” and used it in his book by the same name to describe a small but very important class of systems that gain from shocks, challenges, and disorder. Rates of anxiety disorders and depression are rising rapidly among teenagers, and in the US universities can’t hire therapists fast enough to keep up with the demand. In a stunning final chapter on ideology and civility, Haidt shows what each side is right about, and why we need the insights of liberals, conservatives, and libertarians to flourish as a nation.W e talk incessantly about how to make children more “resilient”, but whatever we’re doing, it’s not working. It is our groupishness, he explains, that leads to our greatest joys, our religious divisions, and our political affiliations. But rather than arguing that we are innately altruistic, he makes a more subtle claim-that we are fundamentally groupish. He then examines the origins of morality, overturning the view that evolution made us fundamentally selfish creatures. He blends his own research findings with those of anthropologists, historians, and other psychologists to draw a map of the moral domain, and he explains why conservatives can navigate that map more skillfully than can liberals. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong.
His starting point is moral intuition-the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do.
Why can't our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.
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