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Americans have absorbed the “Protestant work ethic” — the idea that our value as human beings is determined by how hard we work and how much money we make. Elizabeth Anderson explains how this evolved, why it pervades everything, and why it sucks.
A Pro-Worker Work Ethic the Gray Area With Sean Illing
Apple Podcasts
The SCARF model involves five domains of human social experience: status, certainty, autonomy, relatedness, and fairness.
- Status is about where you are in relation to others around you.
- Certainty concerns being able to predict the future.
- Autonomy provides a sense of control over events.
- Relatedness is a sense of safety with others, of friend rather than foe.
- Fairness is a perception of impartial and just exchanges between people.
Use the SCARF Model to Understand Our Individual Triggers
US Department of Health and Human Services
As a religion, social justice works. It works not merely in the sense that a lot of people take it very seriously and react angrily when people misuse its sacred terms … but also in a much more fundamental and potentially constructive way. It has done what so much of anodyne, classical liberalism has failed to do. It has imbued the secular sphere with meaning. It has reenchanted a godless world.
Resources for Climate Nihilism
Sara Hendren from undefended / undefeated
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