Beckham vs Social Darwinists

[Verbal]

Beckham stops to help a motorist restart his car, and in doing so enables the philosopher AC Grayling to neatly describe and puncture the self-serving, doom-laden nonsense which seems to have its fringe advocates everywhere, including on here.

 

"Moral panics in society arise when a severe one-off interruption occurs in these normal co-operative arrangements. The murder of a child, an atrocity in which a gunman shoots a number of people in a school, a major public scandal, unsettle us because they challenge our collective sense of an ethical order. People immediately begin to think that everything has gone to the dogs."

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/a-c-grayling-celebrity-really-rather-kind-just-like-the-rest-of-us-shock-2213017.html

[hypochondriac]

WTF are you on about? mystifying like you normally are.

[benjii]

I applaud efforts to draw attention to interesting articles on here.

 

Unfortunately, that is not one.

 

In all seriousness though, thank you.

[SuperMikey]

Social Darwinism, widely regarded as one of the first Social Scientific theories, stemmed from the ideas put forward in the Anthropological writings of Charles Darwin and was furthered by Social Scientific lynchpins such as Malthus, Galton and Haeckel, who are considered some of the greatest thinkers of our time even if most of their ideas and theories have been proved inaccurate with the expansion of society. What Verbal was getting at was the idea of a Moral Panic, popularised in Victorian England with the garrotting crimewave in which the media sensationalised a series of crimes to a point where it created widespread anxiety and panic amongst citizens. However, the moral panic in this instance was instigated by the corruption of the social hierachy (i.e. David Beckham pulling over to help a broken-down motorist), which makes us question the very society we live in as it goes against what we define as social norms.

 

HTH

[benjii]

Social Darwinism, widely regarded as one of the first Social Scientific theories, stemmed from the ideas put forward in the Anthropological writings of Charles Darwin and was furthered by Social Scientific lynchpins such as Malthus, Galton and Haeckel, who are considered some of the greatest thinkers of our time even if most of their ideas and theories have been proved inaccurate with the expansion of society. What Verbal was getting at was the idea of a Moral Panic, popularised in Victorian England with the garrotting crimewave in which the media sensationalised a series of crimes to a point where it created widespread anxiety and panic amongst citizens. However, the moral panic in this instance was instigated by the corruption of the social hierachy (i.e. David Beckham pulling over to help a broken-down motorist), which makes us question the very society we live in as it goes against what we define as social norms.

 

HTH

 

No, not one jot, as far I'm concerned.

 

May have helped Hypo though.

[Saintandy666]

I hate Social Darwinism with a passion. It is so heartless.

[Jonnyboy]

I hate Social Darwinism with a passion. It is so heartless.

 

What about evolutionary psychology?

[saintscottofthenortham]

It was offside. End of story. HTH.

[Saintandy666]

What about evolutionary psychology?

 

I think that the state of mind and personality traits you have are mainly due to your surroundings and upbringing.

[Jonnyboy]

I think that the state of mind and personality traits you have are mainly due to your surroundings and upbringing.

 

oh dear oh dear

[trousers]

This planet is so much better for the existence of human beings....where would we be without them