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Sand Talk with Tyson Yunkaporta

The Emerald

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The Tragedy of the Left

Tyson: The growl or the slap isn't being done in order to convey that one person is better than the other. It's another way of asking would your dialogue with the person you're calling out or canceling or battling with on the internet change if you knew that ultimately you were both responsible for the well-being of your society? How would your communication change then? So I'm bringing it up and I'm contrasting that with the modern day tendency towards discourse that is declarative, which often result in one person being unfriended or cancelled. "The left jumped in and started wrestling the pig and now the left is a pig," he says.

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