I recommend the documentary “What Killed Michael Brown?” by historian Shelby Steele. Two things about it struck me. 1) Steele’s term “Poetic Truth” sounds very much like a Grand Narrative: An overarching story that provides the framework through which we understand and react to the world. 2) Obama and Holder, in the way they handled the death of Michael Brown, fanned the flames of racism and racial animosity in America in a huge way.
Item #2 goes to a point I’ve struggled to communicate for years. The Prime Directive of conservatism is the nurturing of social capital, to which, as Haidt points out in The Righteous Mind, the left is blind. Yet the left dominates every major industry and institution that controls the culture; academia, media, and entertainment. The ramifications of this are tragic, and largely invisible to the vast majority of analyses of current events. Conservatives, due to their intuitive appreciation of social capital
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