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We will gain we will follow up the last part of our previous discussion on the ideas of Johnathan Haidt at our next meeting in August planned for Saturday, August 25th, 1-3 at my (Gary Berg-Cross’s house in Potomac). His books include: The Happiness Hypothesis, and of The New York Times bestseller

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. These books and Haidt’s research has been recommended providing insight into our times.
“Americans have long known that they have racial, ethnic, class, and partisan divides. But the 2016 presidential election has forced all of us to recognize that these gaps may be far larger, more numerous, and more dangerous than we thought. Americans are not just failing to meet each other and know each other. Increasingly, we hate each other—particularly across the partisan divide……The Righteous Mind is non-partisan, and teaches cross-partisan respect. I’m a social psychologist who has studied moral and political psychology for thirty years. I first began research for The Righteous Mind in 2004, motivated in part by a desire to help progressives do a better job of connecting with American moral values. But after immersing myself in the writings of all sides and doing my best to find the good on all sides, I became a non-partisan centrist. As I show clearly in my book, the three major philosophical camps—left, right, and libertarian—are each the guardians of deep truths about how to have a humane and flourishing society. I treat all sides fairly and respectfully and help students to step out of their “moral matrix” in order to appreciate the ways that ideological teams distort thinking, and blind us to the motives and insights of others.”
http://righteousmind.com/why-the-righteous-mind-is-the-best-common-reading/