[secede] + [and] + [or] -- every choice is a moral choice
Capitalism depends on the division of labor. The impossibility of saying whether the barber, plumber, or mechanic has more “value” has created an unfortunate trickle down effect into other areas.
You like reading books, but I like watching TV. They’re just different ways to relax.
Barbell training makes you calm and focused. Smoking weed does the same thing for me.
You have tickets to the art museum, but I have tickets to the hockey game. They both kill an afternoon.
This Protestant inspired moral relativism culminates in the midwit mantra “I do what works for me”.
X and Y are both equally valid, so the conjunction dominates postmodern thought. Since X has no more value than Y, the decision X or Y is meaningless. Disjunctions are anathema because they imply a hierarchy.
The obvious failure of modern society casts doubt on its intellectual foundations. Classical civilizations understood that every choice — food, entertainment, hobbies, living situation, friends, etc. — is a moral choice. Every decision is either virtuous or vicious. To repair our culture, we must learn to think again in terms of disjunctions, not conjunctions.