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Daily Dose of Reason -
Society & Culture
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Written by Michael J. Hurd, Ph.D.
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Wednesday, 01 June 2011 00:00 |
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 Dr. Hurd: I am an avid reader of your Daily Dose of Reason along with your Life's a Beach column. Since I was in college, I've been reading your Living Resources Newsletter and online postings along with the readings of Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden.
Lately, I've noticed a theme in your blogs in which you mention that parents and children in this generation have a sense of entitlement. I would go further to say that this generation not only has a sense of entitlement, but also no understanding of basic social concepts like self-responsibility, rational thinking, and interpersonal skills.
I believe that the lack of social understanding has a lot do
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Read more... [The Socialization of Children]
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Daily Dose of Reason -
Society & Culture
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Written by Michael J. Hurd, Ph.D.
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Saturday, 28 May 2011 00:00 |
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 Liberty is a beautiful thing. But it's a tool. It's not an end in itself that can be imposed on a people unworthy of it, or who do not want it.
Advocates of liberty must be careful not to confuse cause and effect. Liberty is, in fact, the effect -- the RESULT -- of a state of mind. A person, or a people, pursue liberty because they long to use their minds, to be self-responsible and autonomous people. Liberty is the secular religion of the individualist. A non-individualist has no more use for liberty than an atheist does with fundamentalist faith.
When you mistakenly assume liberty is a cause you get --- well, you get what's going on in the United States today. There is a growing
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Read more... [Liberty in Search of a Nation]
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Daily Dose of Reason -
Society & Culture
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Written by Michael J. Hurd, Ph.D.
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Wednesday, 25 May 2011 00:00 |
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 People wonder how and why high-profile politicians like Arnold Schwarzenegger use such bad judgment in their personal lives. "They have so much to lose; why do they risk it?"
To me, it's obvious why men such as Schwarzenegger, or any career politician, use such bad judgment. Think about what a politician is. A politician is someone who gets to spend other people's money, with no consequences. Billions and billions of dollars of honestly earned money are transferred into
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Read more... [Mr. Universe Proves Himself Ordinary]
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Daily Dose of Reason -
Society & Culture
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Written by Michael J. Hurd, Ph.D.
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Tuesday, 24 May 2011 00:00 |
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 What is it with "kids today"? Are they spoiled rotten, or is that just the sentiment of someone getting older, as we all do?
It occurs to me that most kids today are in one respect victims, but not in the usual sense. If they're a victim of anything, it's the mixed messages of their elders.
American children especially are sent the message,
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Read more... [Mixed Messages Are Ruining Many Young People]
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Daily Dose of Reason -
Society & Culture
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Written by Michael J. Hurd, Ph.D.
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Saturday, 21 May 2011 00:00 |
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 Dr. Hurd: I absolutely loved what you said in your article about "confidence, but no competence."
I'd like to add, though, that the reason parents don't teach their kids about the tools to gain that competence is simply because ... they don't really understand them, either.
I see many previous generations having "done" something ... because they believed they had to. They couldn't explain why (and believe me, at a much younger age, I asked older folks many times...and I got nothing but a run-around that would make President Obama blush; no joke), they just did. It was supposedly just, "What you were supposed to do, because you were."
If the previous generations can't explain to the proceeding generations why what's being done is necessary to be done, then what we all see is those future generations living by the ideology that the previous generations believed, but didn't want to admit.
Perfect example: Why did the Baby Boomer generation turn on to the Hippie Movement and revolt against the "man" when their parents seemed so incredibly patriotic? Maybe because deep down their parents weren't very patriotic, they just claimed they were--to their kids and to themselves, and it wasn't questioned.
Again, fantastic piece; I agree with you all the way.
Dr. Hurd replies:
In my newly released book, BAD THERAPY GOOD THERAPY, I made the distinction between "do as I say" dogmatism and "do as you feel" subjectivism. You're talking about the first, and you're so right that
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Read more... [Critical Thinking vs. Wishful Thinking]
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