Episode 75: The Us vs. Them Mentality Is Shrinking Us with Holly Toronto (part 1)

Mar 27, 2022

01:05:00

In this episode with returning guest Holly Toronto, we...

share Holly's experiences with "us vs. them" thinking in the space of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood and why she's choosing to keep some things to herself.
talk about the collective's inability to hold grief and other human experiences and discuss fear as the root of this inability
share the wide range of thought, belief, and experiences on one of the most controversial subjects — birth — and how fear and othering is showing up in other spaces as well, including race, COVID, vaccines, parenting, and more
talk about the epidemic of self-censorship that us vs. them thinking has created
discuss the nuances of why people choose what they choose
share about the necessity of having a village and how us vs. them thinking destroys our sense of genuine community
share our concern about the next generation engaging in "accountability" culture and cancel culture because our generation hasn't modeled tolerance, inclusivity, and acceptance to them and how it's not just happening on social media
discuss our shared experiences in fundamentalist Christianity and how us vs. them thinking was engrained into us from a young age