PBS310Y: Idea Bundling

• Original articulation: utsfl.ncln.ca/2009/07/02/against-idea-bundling-in-the-pro-life-movement-plagal-on-prolife-unity-radio/
• Worldview politics, horizontal vs vertical action
• Types of Idea Bundling
  • Ethical (bioethics, sexual ethics, etc.)
  • Religious (e.g. Humanae vitae politics)
  • Political (e.g. equating “pro-life” with “Conservative” or “Republican”)
• NCLN's Balancing Beliefs
  • No one-denominational cliques
  • The primary purpose of a club is not to form a prayer group, but to be an activist organization
  • Accommodation of various identities, big tent (not uniformity, but unity)
  • Lead by example, set the tone for members

On the dangers of ideological yak shaving:

• http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2005/03/05/yak-shaving.html on subroutines

You start out deciding to tidy your room and you realize that in order to do that you'll need some more trash bags, so you need to go to the shops, which will involve you getting out the car, but the car needs gas, so you'll need to go to the gas station first, which means you should probably find your gas discount card, which involves finding your keys, which are in the room somewhere…

We need to be conscious about when we're working on subroutines versus the primary problem, and where the most appropriate place to fix subroutines are.