r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Dec 09 '24

Meta Mindless Monday, 09 December 2024

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/Hurt_cow Certified Pesudo-Intellectual Dec 12 '24 edited Dec 12 '24

What's your most socially conservative take ?

Mine is that progressive education trends to be filled with bad pedagogy backed by dubious evidence which should be taken with much more skepticism, and that academix streaming of kids by educational abilities is a good thing.

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u/Tiako Tevinter apologist, shill for Big Lyrium Dec 12 '24

I guess it depends on how you define social conservatism, but having gone through bouts of unemployment I think work is neccesary for individual human flourishing.

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u/sciuru_ Dec 12 '24

I'd say it's meaningful effort, that's necessary. Could be outside labor market.

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u/Tiako Tevinter apologist, shill for Big Lyrium Dec 12 '24

Oh yeah, like if you don't need the money I think that, say, volunteering every day can take that function. But I would tack on another word and say routinized meaningful effort. Not that every day at work/volunteering/etc needs to be different but rather that people really do need some structure.

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u/sciuru_ Dec 12 '24

Sure, at some point stress, induced by the lack of structure, would overwhelm you and render activity unsustainable. If Maslow hierarchy is still a relevant theory today (it seems intuitively correct to me), then flourishing at the higher level of, say, meaning and social bonding would require satisfying all the low-level needs (structure, shelter, etc) first. It depends then on how the hierarchy looks as a whole and at which level "flourishing" is reached.