Why Don't Leaders of These Institutions Just Grow a Pair and Stand Up for Their Values?

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Why is it that just simple courage in the defence of he institutional values, which have served these institutions so well, is an inadiquette response to these technological changes? That's the question we've all been asking since 20 15. What i've seen happening since 20 15 is a battle for narrative control. And this gets us to the babble field of the essay. So humans have shared intentionality. We haveability, even if we don't speak the same language. The social need of fragments everything. Fragments attention. It fragments the ability to co create a story together. When any common story is lost, when you can't have a common story, what you have is chaos

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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