Jordan Greenhall: Genuine Conversation and the Intellectual Dark Web + The Paradox of the Times
Rebel Wisdom
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The Importance of Being a Cause
We're moving into a state where in the not too distant future, effectively everybody is going to have to be enormously wise and skillful to avoid creating catastrophic consequences. The increased polarization of the dialogue is that we're staking out ideological positions that are very difficult for us to communicate with the other side. If I am playing a political game to win, then I am incentivized to generate a set of stories that create a maximum intensity of separation between my group and other groups. We end up having to be the natural in a winner-take-all democracy where 51% wins everything.
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