Category: Tools
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As we noted back in 2017, you reap what you sow. The seeds of this week’s unrest and Capitol riot have been sown for many years throughout our political and popular culture. Conspiracy theories and other forms of misinformation propagated and were allowed to thrive. This week we witnessed the harvest of anger and resentment…
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We got to where we are politically today through millions of consumer driven decisions on what information to look at and where. How many of those decisions were driven by a desire to be comfortable, to have one’s worldview or worst fears confirmed? To move forward, we need to build new ways of sifting through…
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We know what brings peace and prosperity. The Institute for Economics and Peace has been studying that for 13 years, publishing annual “Global Peace Index” and “Positive Peace Index” reports. The Global Peace Index looks at the presence (or absence) of violence and the threat of violence. The United States is in the bottom half…
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If we are going to live well together, we need to learn how to talk with each other. Not at each other, not past each other, but with each other. This is hard to do because it’s not how we’re taught. We’re often taught to assert our views and to dismiss those with which we…