tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post7056868557634517783..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: Quick Roundup 385Gus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-83435384759567020292008-12-15T19:10:00.000-06:002008-12-15T19:10:00.000-06:00Dear Alice,You're welcome, and thank you for stopp...Dear Alice,<BR/><BR/>You're welcome, and thank you for stopping by.<BR/><BR/>Although I suspect I will often very strongly disagree with the philosophical positions undergirding the articles in your publication, I look forward to its explicitly raising issues pertinent to morality and the nature of the mind. <BR/><BR/>These issues are very interesting and vitally important, and Objectivists have quite a few worthwhile things to say about them. <BR/><BR/>I do plan to stop by your magazine's web site from time to time.<BR/><BR/>Sincerely,<BR/><BR/>Gus Van HornGus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-57436562895811054142008-12-15T18:25:00.000-06:002008-12-15T18:25:00.000-06:00Dear Gus,Thank you for reviewing Dr. Dacher Keltne...Dear Gus,<BR/><BR/>Thank you for reviewing Dr. Dacher Keltner's recent article published in the New York Times ("In Defense of Teasing")! Dr. Kelter is the Executive Editor of Greater Good, a quarterly magazine. Articles from the latest issue of Greater Good magazine are now online at<BR/>our redesigned website, www.greatergoodmag.org! Please take a look!<BR/><BR/>This issue features a series of essays on trust--always a critical issue in<BR/>an election year, especially in the midst of an economic crisis. Though<BR/>trust is essential to families, friendships, governments, businesses, and<BR/>even the global economy, it has been declining for years. This issue of<BR/>Greater Good explores why trust is so important, and how we can rebuild<BR/>it.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Thanks!<BR/><BR/>Alice Ly<BR/>Circulation Assistant<BR/>www.greatergoodmag.org<BR/>greater@berkeley.eduAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-43892219770225030982008-12-13T16:29:00.000-06:002008-12-13T16:29:00.000-06:00Neither had I! Blogging such things often has give...Neither had I! Blogging such things often has given me some really neat insights like that. Glad you also found it interesting!Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-42034668306443520902008-12-13T16:14:00.000-06:002008-12-13T16:14:00.000-06:00This is indeed a very ambiguous situation. Lynne, ...<I>This is indeed a very ambiguous situation. Lynne, a young girl, may have been feeling some of her very first romantic stirrings, and may have been inexperienced enough with such feelings even to be aware of them as such. She needed room to explore these feelings. Teasing gave it to her.<BR/></I><BR/><BR/>You know, that's very interesting. I never thought about it that way.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10897769844874861468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-15073746116314484842008-12-12T19:39:00.000-06:002008-12-12T19:39:00.000-06:00"The one thing which IMO would be the solution to ..."<I>The one thing which IMO would be the solution to the bullying (aside from the first and most obvious solution: abolish the public schools) ....</I>"<BR/><BR/>True. And abolish truancy laws.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for bringing that up. I'd intended to, but forgot about it as I began thinking about teasing.<BR/><BR/>And what you say about bullying I should have thought of, but did not. I was very fortunate that my parents sent me to Catholic schools, but I've heard enough that I should have thought of that.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-56274701681486405412008-12-12T16:41:00.000-06:002008-12-12T16:41:00.000-06:00The main reason why bullying reports drop off is b...The main reason why bullying reports drop off is because 11 or 12 is the age when being "tough" becomes paramount. They bullying itself doesn't stop; on the contrary, it starts getting far worse, because that's when puberty starts happening among boys, and the barbaric Lord of the Flies environment they create gets more intense. The largely implied threat of the prepubescent years becomes more real. If you think "telling" was bad when you were 9, try it in an inner city high school!<BR/><BR/>The one thing which IMO would be the solution to the bullying (aside from the first and most obvious solution: abolish the public schools) would be the same thing that would help reduce crime in the larger society: permit a greater freedom of self-defense and self-assertion, to solve one's own problems.<BR/><BR/>But that contradicts the purpose and nature of socialized education. As <A HREF="www.johntaylorgatto.com" REL="nofollow"> John Taylor Gatto</A> puts it:<BR/><BR/>"What better way to habituate kids to abandoning trust in their peers (<B>and themselves</B>) than to create an atmosphere of constant low-level stress and danger, <B>relief from which is only available by appeal to authority? And many times not even then!</B>"<BR/><BR/>Gatto is tainted with some flecks of the usual anti-capitalist tendency, but if you get past that, his critique of the nature and purpose of socialized education is devastating.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com