In the olden days a blogpost was a link and a word or two: why "why we should"

what is the ethical response to morality?

the link?

It is a link to what I wrote for an essay competition in 2019. But without that spur I may not have written it. (No it didn’t win.)

Why we should : an introduction by memoir into the implications of the Egalitarian Revolution of the Paleolithic, or, Anyone for cake?

Here I will try to explore of those ideas and concerns further, which began with the general question of myself “What is the ethical response to morality?” in the mid-2010s.

“What’s the difference between ethics and morality?” I’d ask people, museum work colleagues mostly, and log their answers in a dreamy part of my head.

South Hobart, Tasmania. ⓒ meika loofs samorzewski 2023

the commentary?

In that essay linked above, and which gives the name for this bloggy exporation, i use the term “moral urge” to describe our empathic-based world-building, which is as much a part of us as our sense of physical self. As such it is very, very nebulous. We often credit the outcomes with it’s creation, conflating the good we seek to inform our lives with as that which makes us human in the first place. Everything might fall apart if we didn’t, we feel. So I’ll be attempting to delve into the work denoting this world-building moral urge, by digging up all sorts of connotations the urge inspires us to live by/with/in/from/to…

the why?

Currently I have some thousands of words prepared for a book of some kind, but need some public space to work on some of the issues into a more available form, to test how accessible it might be, and to help cull, or save, the wordage from the “book”, which may or may not happen. At least without asking people around me questions I know it will not get anywhere at all.

Thanks for you time.

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