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Aneirin -> The Role of Emotion in Political Affiliation (6/21/2011 7:04:24 AM)
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As a personal interest, I began to wonder what if any bearing does emotion have on one's political affiliations, and that because many of my lot, the artistic community tend to follow liberal or socialist values or just have no interest in political affiliations at all, wheras some I know who are engaged in science or business orientated occupations follow a more conservative code and tend to believe what they are told by authority.
Now artists of whatever form are generally known for the use of emotions in their work, emotion is an important factor, wheras with others perhaps non artistic minds fact holds more prominance, perhaps the minds at work are logic versus intuition, and in political terms, idealism versus fact based actions, which holds more value and that goes onto the right brain/left brain thinking theory and how it serves humanity.
But how it serves, is anyone aware that those who tend to fail at school, drop out and pursue perhaps unlawful existances tend also to be natural artists of some kind, there indicating that the school system has failed these individuals, and that because teaching in biased towards left brain thinking, those that automaticly left brain think through birth do well, those that don't struggle as the concepts are alien to their way of thinking and that I believe is because society believes it can mould people into being useful to society, not tailoring tuition to how people naturally think. But that is a subject for a later interest, but it aided me to come to the following question
What role does emotion have in political afiliation I wonder, well, here is an interesting essay by Jonathan Haidt, Associate Professor of Psychology ay Virinia University ;
But first a word of warning, whatever your political affiliation, if you wish to read and perhaps understand more, please leave your political affiliations at the door and approach the subject with an open mind, as the very title of the essay can and will raise the bile in some before the even the first word of the essay is read, despite any thoughts on an open mind.
What Makes People Vote Republican by Jonathan Haidt
Note, I do not wish for this thread to devolve into the usual tit for tat political affiliation slanging match that this forum is so infamous for, as that serves no one, as I wish to view intellectual discussion on the value of emotion in political affiliation, is it a controlling factor or is it not, and furthermore as a side interest, does the left brain/right brain thinking theory also come into it ?
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