By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 8 Aug 19
https://medium.com/media/4cc015802985104d6244853ddacc372b/hrefHow can we even begin to understand and solve our biggest problems if our conversations about them keep breaking down?The growing polarisation of western societies started before social media, but it is continuing to accelerate —as more and more of us retreat into ideological camps and see the “other side” as at best irrational, at worst, mortal enemies.As the evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein pithily explains, our current situation means “you can’t dance with the one that brought you”. Meaning, in evolutionary terms, many of our innate programmes, particularly for tribalism, violence and rivalry, will end in a self-extinctionary path if we can’t
https://medium.com/media/4cc015802985104d6244853ddacc372b/hrefHow can we even begin to understand and solve our biggest problems if our conversations about them keep breaking down?The growing polarisation of western societies started before social media, but it is continuing to accelerate —as more and more of us retreat into ideological camps and see the “other side” as at best irrational, at worst, mortal enemies.As the evolutionary biologist Bret
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 9 Jul 18
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