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Ep 321: Josh Felman Tries to Make Sense of the World

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Tribalism in the Public Discourse

I think that among the problems with the discourse, you only get heard and amplified if you are expressing something with certainty. There is an incentive to be falsely certain than to be truthfully nuanced in the public discourse. And then tribalism plays out in two ways where one, once you find an ideological tribe which is a, you know, and it's seductive to be part of such an ideological tribe. Once you choose your political tribe, then everything your party does is right. Everything the other party does is wrong. So there is so much incentive to understand the fads of the age and the biases of the age.

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