Friction
TED Radio Hour
00:00
The Importance of Diplomacy in the US
The point of this diplomacy was to slow the spread of extremism, add friction by taking lots of time to just talk. It really is spending a lot of time engaging mostly with people who have very different experiences than you. That is already friction. So when did you realize that this kind of friction needed to be deployed back home in the US? Like when did you start to see extremism spreading here? Yeah. I think I had taken for granted that our democracy was secure. We were okay at home.
Transcript
Play full episode
