There is a habit by most (not all) science-oriented academics and writers of analysing the present and simply adding external changes (temps, economics) to predict futures. In this way, they are missing out on the potential of shifting human values – a moral imagination deficit.
— 🧬 Ginny Battson (@seasonalight) July 21, 2022
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Moral, mood, mode, modern, medicine – linguistic PIE roots “med” to take appropriate measures, Sanskrit midiur – I judge. As opposed to manner, mandate, from PIE root “man” and “do” meaning hand to give – the hand that does – the habit.
— 🧬 Ginny Battson (@seasonalight) July 21, 2022
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Imagination, from latin imaginari, from PIE root “aim” to copy. We aim for.
Fascinating links with conjure, jurist, iurist, yewes (roots of Rights and Law), but another day…
— 🧬 Ginny Battson (@seasonalight) July 21, 2022
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Deficit – PIE roots, to do down. De – undo.
— 🧬 Ginny Battson (@seasonalight) July 21, 2022
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Deficit – PIE roots, to do down. De – undo.
Neologism of the day is offered so that we all may acknowledge The Moral Imagination Deficit.
Demedaim. (de. med. aim) to un-do or down-do judgement of what we may aim for.
Links with Spanish “demedio” to halve.
— 🧬 Ginny Battson (@seasonalight) July 21, 2022
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Struggling to imagine. Image by me.~~~
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