Collin G Brooke

The hijackers, Democrats and Republicans alike, have acted as if the idea that self-government depends on people being able to count on independent providers of information is a quaint relic and that the new media channels present new opportunities that creative political operatives must seize.

Instead of leveling the field between small and large, the open Internet has dramatically tilted it in favor of the most massive players.

Intuitionism and the rejection of evidence and expertise are especially compatible with conservative populism.

The expansion of our technological reach is not increasing our self-efficacy, but undermining it.

And stories make place.24 This means the metaphoric, allegorical, symbolic, and other devices that shape stories also move us and make place.

There are three major psychological weapons that combatants often transfer into culture war: scapegoating, deception, and violent threats.

Charm requires proximity.

Much of our capacity to ‘use’ the world depends, not on an attempt to open ourselves as much as possible to apprehending whatever it is that exists apart from ourselves, but instead on apprehending whatever I have brought into being for myself, my representation of it. This is the remit of the left hemisphere, and would appear to require a

This is the problem beneath other problems because if we can’t agree on what’s true, then we can’t navigate out of any of our problems.”