Wow! I’m speechless!
Open Source » Blog Archive » The Banality of Evil, Part II
Well, ok. Not completely speechless. Not even one of the most insightful interviews I’ve heard in a long long while can make me speechless… 
For one thing, this is one occasion on which Radio Open Source host Christopher Lydon in fact let his interviewee’s voice get through to the audience. It makes a tremendous difference from his usual “I-show” attitude.
This show helped me connect many of the threads I’ve been thinking about (and been teaching) for a while: constructivism, constructionism, relativism, moralism, moral relativism, contextualism, judgment, American exceptionalism, ethics, power, identity, labeling, stigmatisation, social structure, social pressure, peer pressure, hierarchy, non-conformism, heroism, social support, organic relationships, humanism, envy, greed, self-importance, roles, social status, achievements, subversion, egalitarianism, ordered anarchy, satisfaction, academic research, intellectualism, anarchy, activism, personality, sociocentrism, socio-constructivism, socialisation, enculturation, informal learning, social networks, networking, social mobility, social dynamics, wisdom of crowds, groupthink, social contract, social butterfly effect, social amnesia, selfishness, egocentrism, ethnocentrism, institutionalism, grassroots movements, self-righteousness, intellectuals, idealism, atheism, essentialism, universalism, indivudualism, identity negotiation, social change, free will, experimentation, face-saving, end of innocence, naïveté, communities, teams, bands, gangs, discrimination…
Or, maybe I make too much out of this…