polarization vs coexistence & cohesion

If left unmanaged, conflicts naturally tend to escalate in both scale and scope. AI should help us stay towards the lower left of this graph.

But that doesn’t mean the elimination of all conflict. Sometimes conflict is healthy. It’s often part of how people and societies change for the better, such as by challenging injustice. The important... See more

She and others wanted to find a way to restore their sense of community. They wanted to weave and the question was, how? “We chose activities that we knew people really cared about, but where there was no controversy,” she says.

According to More In Common’s The Connection Opportunity report, the vast majority of folks are willing to build connections with folks they disagree with. Sixty-six percent (66%) of Americans feel they can learn something valuable by connecting with others who are different and seven-in-ten feel a responsibility to do so. 

The report indicates that... See more

There are two mindsets that allow these atrocities to happen. One is dehumanizing , where you consider other groups of people less than human. Then there's demonizing , where you consider them to be fully human, which makes them all the more contemptible because of the evil choices that they've made. Daniel Goldhagen has set up a 2 X 2 taxonomy of... See more