This episode is a mental reset. Crystal explores the idea of two competing groups both holding equally true arguments, and whether refusing to acknowledging when others are ‘right’ is ultimately what is holding all of us back from progress.
Are we really trying to make the world better, or are we just in it to see our side ‘win’?
In the episode:
- How we all lose when we refuse to admit when our opponents are right
- Surprising causes that share an important truth: the anti-lockdown protests, the Australian Black lives matter protests and the Flemington housing tower outrage
- Acknowledging contradictory truths is the key to creating progress
- Political binaries are not real: is it possible to be 100% ‘left’ or 100% ‘right’
- Law of non-contradiction
Links:
K.C Cole, ‘Quantum mechanics has a lesson for our polarized society: Two contradictory things can still be true’ in the LA Times
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