I wonder if people only know if it's fake news because mainstream media used that term and said you must not trust that other. It's interesting to try to follow the trajectory of this growing awareness, because I would say it started well before that fake news. We've always been able to sort of separate ourselves from news and say, oh, that propaganda, but not everybody could do that. You can separate yourself from something and then observe it is a form of taking back power over something. So with the fake news, yes, I agree with what happened. But what I see now is it's sort of everywhere. People question what they're reading. Some people are being caught up in
If politics is broken—what's the alternative?
Indra Adnan is an author, political entrepreneur and psychosocial therapist. She's also the founder of The Alternative UK political platform and a global consultant on soft power. For over twenty years, Indra has been writing, consulting, network-building and event-organising on the themes of future politics, conflict transformation, the role of the arts and integral thinking.
She joins me to discuss the problem with narratives peddled by mainstream media, the power of story, and how to reimagine the story of now in order to get people excited about building a new future together. This episode covers so much, exploring conflict, creativity, education, the economy, disconnection, and gives a vision of a new politics centred around relationships.
“Conflict can be the very thing that shows you what's wrong: there's something amiss with our relationships in this society, we need to flush this out. If you're doing it well, it can lead to the transformation of that society.
“But if you're simply buying into the conflict as an opportunity to gain power over the other side, that it's a zero sum game, then it's going to lead to violence.”
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