Andrew McCluskey

“Facts don’t change minds, friendship does!” James Clear explains how convincing someone to change their mind is actually about convincing them to change their tribe. “Perhaps it is not difference , but distance that breeds tribalism and hostility.” Relevant in times of rising social polarisation.

So we should then examine every convention through its origin – especially within the context of social dynamics, power, and wealth.

Serious-minded persons, for example, are continually condemning the habit of going to the cinema, and telling us that it leads the young into crime.