La Shawn Barber blogs about a conference on “Moral Reconstruction”.
I can’t help but think that those ideas need to be cross pollinated with the the raw ideas of Domestic PNM Theory that are floating out there.
Le Shawn Writes:
Drug and excessive alcohol use, criminality, illegitimacy, government dependency, refusal to work — unless people are willing to give up these destructive things, there is little point in talking about economics, or entrepreneurship, or raising the academic bar. When destructive factors disproportionately affect a racial group, that group must be honest about what’s going on and individuals must consciously make an effort to change and reverse the generational pattern.
Doesn’t that sound like “domestic disconnectedness”?
Here’s “disconnectedness” as defined in Barnett’s Glossary:
Disconnectedness In this century, it is disconnectedness that defines danger. Disconnectedness allows bad actors to flourish by keeping entire societies detached from the global community and under their dictatorial control, or in the case of failed states, it allows dangerous transnational actors to exploit the resulting chaos to their own dangerous ends. Eradicating disconnectedness is the defining security task of our age, as well as a supreme moral cause in the cases of those who suffer it against their will. Just as important, however, by expanding the connectivity of globalization, we increase peace and prosperity planet-wide.
Update: I have tried cross-pollination.
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