Failed Conservative Values: Arun Akkineni on Self-Righteousness

[courtesy of Blog for America]

 
If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.  Charlotte Bunch

I interviewed Arun Akkineni about Failed Conservative Values. He felt that self-righteousness is a Failed Conservative Value and it's scary and dangerous. With self-righteousness, you see the world as black and white and don't see the nuances. You also don't incorporate other peoples ideas, which makes for poor decision making. He points to the current conservative administrations creation of the war and occupation of Iraq, as an example.

Failed Conservative Values: Arun Akkineni on Self-Righteousness

 I’m Arun, and I’m here to answer a few questions about progressive values.   I’m from Alameda, California.

There’s something very fundamental that I look at in regards to conservative values which is from the perspective of so-called righteousness.  It seems to be very engrained in conservative thought that you have to be righteous – that’s a given value.