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141 sats \ 14 replies \ @SimpleStacker 23 Feb \ on: Why you must be logical and scientific to be a good person science
Reading it, I got distinct vibes of guys like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens so i looked him up and unsurprisingly he's in his 60s. His quick dismissal of everything other than science reminded me a lot of the "New Atheist" school of thought, which at this point should really be called Old Atheism, because young people are not drawn to it anymore.
Young people are realizing that a purely materialistic, secularist, scientific view of the world is insufficient (on average) to endow life with any transcendent meaning, and they see how it's an insufficient set of principles to organize a society around. This is why Western youth are increasingly turning against the liberal elite. It's also why young people are flocking to thinkers like Jordan Peterson who are trying to re-integrate religion into modern thought.
Coincidentally, I just finished one of Dawkins' books called "The Selfish Gene", I really enjoyed it.
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The Selfish Gene is incredible. I definitely consider it an S-tier work in popular science.
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The World of Mathematics
Trust me, it's awesome.
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I'll check it out.
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It's about math, so is the Selfish Gene, btw. Most of that book is verbalizing game theory and systems of ordinary differential equations.
Dawkin is a great writer. He really helped me to get evolution to click in my mind. Before that, I just had that vague notion of survival of the fittest. It's good to understand how well developed the theory of evolution is.
Dawkin is an awful atheist zealot. I am an atheist myself, but his crusade against believers is pathetic IMHO. In doing so, he becomes what he's preaching against: a dogmatic person without room for discussion. I say this even when I factually agree with all his ideas, if that makes sense.
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Don't remember if i did. It was a while ago. I think i only read books aimed at the general audience on this topic.
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It's interesting you say that people are flocking to Jordan Peterson. In my environment, he's still very much of a fringe character at the same level as the Tate brothers. The example I got told a few times is his obsession with the lobster analogy to explain most of human behavior.
They have a good following though, so likely just fringe from the perspective of my social circle. Then again, my social circle is probably illustrative of the liberal elite you mention~~
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