“A Person will not choose less behavior potential over more.” Peter G. Ossorio
“The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.” Oliver Wendell Holmes.
“How ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm, after they’ve seen Paree?” Young and Lewis
“The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.” Oliver Wendell Holmes.
“How ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm, after they’ve seen Paree?” Young and Lewis
1. A community responds to its
member’s recovered, expanded and/or re-distributed eligibility through
implementation, refusal and/or coercive reaction.
2. Eligibilities gained will persist unless there is sufficient coercion or degradation to restrict or undo the gains. Eligibility gains may be lost due to an inability to practice the gains.
2. Eligibilities gained will persist unless there is sufficient coercion or degradation to restrict or undo the gains. Eligibility gains may be lost due to an inability to practice the gains.
3. Eligibility gains can be restricted in actual social practice without being forgotten or devalued by the disenfranchised.
4. When opportunity can be taken it will be unless there is a stronger reason not to.
5. Lost eligibility remembered or rediscovered may be sought and may be retaken.
6. Social progress involves a change in a community member's eligibility reflected by changed practices, statuses, and choice principles (and in extreme cases, a significant change in the community’s world). Changes in eligibility can lead to changes in powers and dispositions: "Hey! I like this thing I've never been allowed to do!"
Changes in eligibility may create new dilemmas of choice that in turn may provoke a new or enhanced awareness of ethical and aesthetic opportunities and dilemmas.
The recognition or experience of new opportunity elicits pressure toward social progress and reaction as a general tendency since people may now insist on the expanded or enhanced eligibility to continue with the new opportunity.
An empirical claim and a hypothesis:
A structure that resembles a noisy upward trending wave describes the social progression of the disenfranchised with the Y axis representing a community’s toleration or acceptance of increased or redistributed eligibility and the X axis representing historical time. An upward, flat or downward midline is possible but the overall trend is an upward slope given that gains in eligibility persist. The relation between progression and reaction is irregular. At no point on the wave is there any assurance of the direction the curve will take next. This is the uneven ascending curve of emancipation. People hold on to their gains as best they can despite expected adversity.
("Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you." Preacher Roe)
Things are getting better, getting better all the time.
"...more people live under elected governments today than any time in human history." Barack Obama, 5/28/14
And how Marriage Equality and the reactionary response looks in March 2015 from the NYTimes: Gay Marriage State by State (A charting over time). And how what's good for the goose might offend the gander. "Freedom of religious expression" as a reactionary response: Indiana, using religion as a cover for bigotry.
And today, June 26, 2015, The Supreme Court of The United States declared in a 5 to 4 decision that same sex marriage is a right.
And, of course the reactionary response: illegal defiance on same sex marriage. And a counter argument, Bannon’s Worldview: Dissecting the Message of ‘The Fourth Turning’
And, of course the reactionary response: illegal defiance on same sex marriage. And a counter argument, Bannon’s Worldview: Dissecting the Message of ‘The Fourth Turning’
I llike thee general thrust of this. It deserves a careful test by contdent analysis of histgorical changes in marriage equality. To do a good job, one will have to distinguish different spheres/social practices relevant to marriage. Eligilbility to work outside the home would ber a good starting place, for it has dramatically changed since the 1940's. With an up turn during WWII, a b back slide, and then a rather steady upward movement starting in the 1960's. Keith Davis
ReplyDeleteIt might be useful to think of it as a driven and damped system. Driving it are people trying to get more behavior potential. Since they usually get this from people who are more privileged, then the privileged giving up their privilege is damping because it's a loss of behavior potential. (Unless the significance of the loss changes and makes it into a gain, for example, "greater freedom for all citizens".) There is also a driving effect on generational change in the style of Berger's "cosmization": it has never not been this way. Those effects are clear to me; I'm curious if there's a reactionary damping, the moral equivalent of "you kids get off my lawn".
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