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Stewart Brand, Jonathan Haidt, Kevin Kelly: Democracy in the Next Cycle of History

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

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Are We Diverting Where There's No Shared Story?

I think the challenge which you have brought up is that there's not a shared story. And particularly as we go global, is this happening globally? That may be the case. I think we're going to have a lot more political violence. We are unchannelling into everything and it's seeping into restaurants, doctors' offices,. It's all over K-12 education and universities. The war is eating us alive. Let's just insist on professional ethics in politics of those areas like Geneva Convention for the Culture War - but don't use chemical weapons. You know what they say: 'Let's not use chemical weapons,' right now people are fighting over stupid little things. Right now

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