I Want To Make People Think

Political and social beliefs are to complex to be narrowed down to one particular thing. To make the claim that Darwin's evolution is the reason to be fiscally conservative and socially liberal is rather naive at best.
 

I will partly agree with you.  There is something you and I haven't discussed.  It is the subject of chaos.  I am a big believer in chaos.  In fact, I think chaos should be strongly considered in formulating theories of the creation and evolution of life.  I am not completely anti-Darwinist.  I think Darwinism can explain some things.  Darwinism is a player within chaos.

If you think about your point about how people are complex, I believe this is another example of chaos.  I overhead part of the news this morning and there was a debate about a particular show on TV.  Apparently this show features a nurse whose behavior offends real life nurses.  These nurses are worried that the nurse on television will stereotype nurses.  I think the shows producers argued that it will not.  I think that both sides of this debate are far from being 100% correct.  As you say, people's beliefs are to complex to be narrowed down to one thing and this is due to chaos.  I think about chaos many times when I pay attention to those sort of debates.

But you see, I want to make people think.  Most people don't deeply question their belief systems.  I know someone who works as a gas station attendant at a local wholesale club.  Every once in a while over the last two years I ask him, "Why is the price of gas going up?"  His answer has always been, "Greeeeeeeeeeeeeed".  He doesn't question the real reasons or his belief system.  I have tried to talk a little bit of sense into him.  He just stands there and says nothing.  I think he is just an angry progressive who is anti-capitalist.  Ironically, it is the company who hired him that was born under capitalism and pays him a good wage for just standing around watching people most of the time.  So the point is, he might be a liberal for reasons that have nothing to do with Darwinism.  But who were his parents and what were the belief systems that influenced them?  Were there any unconscious beliefs that influenced his upbringing? 

By the way, the markets are a great example of chaos.  There is greed in them but there is also a variety of other emotions influencing decisions.  You can't narrow it down to greed.  There is greed, fear, optimism, self-interest, confidence, and rational and irrational behavior.  Are wealthy philanthropists greedy when they give their money away?  There are influences outside the markets that have unintentional consequences on the markets.   

The link below came from your last post.

http://inductivist.blogspot.com/2009/04/education-does-not-explain-link-betwe...

I have some homework for you.  Read the first chapters of "Mean Markets and Lizard Brains".  A copy should be available in your local book store right now.  If you want to defeat people in arenas of debate (including me), read part of that book.  You just might thank me one day for my advice because it gives you tips on how to invest your money.  Guess what it is based partly on?  Evolution.  Of course I don't entirely agree with that aspect of it because I don't think that conciousness evolved but, some scientists are working on trying to prove how it did.

Enough thinking and rambling for me now.