(December 5, 2015 at 2:29 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Secondly, I do not believe this is a one directional cultural shift. Identity in the ancient world was far less individualistic than Anglo-American culture. People got their primary identies from group participation: genealogy (who's your daddy), gender, and geography.
I haven't yet gotten my hands on the incipient paper, but Haidt mentions this even today. All three cultures are in play depending on where in the world one is and as you mentioned very dependent on the type of culture on is in at large. The attention is being driven because a culture that has most recently been a Culture of Dignity is experiencing a shift.
Of course as with all things culture, we're discussing generalities and I think it's fair to acknowledge that their are likely pockets of the less predominant moral cultures perhaps everywhere we go.
