Michael Kofnett: We think about some of the more successful social movements in recent history, including the fight for gay marriage. He says it makes him optimistic that the culture is not fixed. Tomorrow, he'll explain how we've come to mistake information for intimacy and how we need to flip that if we hope to convince people of anything.
"Meaning," says Marcus Collins ("For the Culture") in today's episode, "is culturally mediated based on how we see the world. Understanding how people make meaning will increase the likelihood of understanding who they are and how they navigate the world."