Challenging the Status Quo

james12 January 04, 2018 at 00:00 3550 views 2 comments

The philosopher Ladelle McWhorter has said “Today’s status quo was far from inevitable and need not persist into tomorrow…we can unmake and remake what has been made.” What about the status quo would you ‘unmake’, and how would you ‘remake’ it?

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AngleWyrm January 04, 2018 at 02:22 #139695 0 likes

The use of pain response as a behavioral modification program in systems of law fails to grasp frequency of individual experience as a factor in learning. It works for traffic/speeding tickets. It does not work for issues likely to be experienced less than three times in a lifespan.

Those issues should be addressed by determining the motive that drives them and the environmental factors that make that motive a viable strategy.

BC January 04, 2018 at 08:27 #139740 0 likes

Reply to james12 I'm usually all for subverting the dominant paradigm, but "status quo" sort of covers the whole universe. Could you narrow this down, just a hair?