Are We Running Out of Time?

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We're headed towards a latin american style democracy, says the author. And i think that's our future, unless we make some big changes. I'm just beginning to read barbara walters book, how silla wars start. It is really frightening, because she says it's when you have a lot of ideologies based on identity and malitias. So she sees the signs brewing for civil war. Now don't think about like the us. Civil war of the 18 sixties. Think about more like columbia, or places where they're malitios,. Their killings, their bombings, their assassinations. We've had that in the late 19 sixties,

One of the world’s most influential social psychologists, a professor of ethical leadership at NYU's Stern School of Business, and a member of Persuasion's Board of Advisors, Jonathan Haidt is the author of The Righteous Mind and, with Greg Lukianoff, co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind. Haidt recently wrote a much-read feature in The Atlantic entitled “After Babel.”

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Jonathan Haidt discuss how we can make social media less toxic, what political and technological reforms might help fix the problem, and how we can empower the moderate majority to fight for its values.

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