(1) Due to the actions of Twitter, FB, Apple, Amazon etc, it is now imaginable that the internet will slowly break into two pieces—or a whole chaotic array of shards.
(2)In the past, Americans with different political beliefs sorted themselves into their own echo chambers but at least shared the same platform.
(3) In the near future, parts of the populist right will attempt to build platforms of their own. This could end up accelerating rather than slowing their radicalization.
The result of this "big sort" is purposed and is meant to divide and tribalize Americans.
The result of this "big sort" is purposed and is meant to divide and tribalize Americans.
(4) After the chaos of this purposed fracturing, there will be an insistence of adopting one "safe" epistemic, one theological, one philosophical standpoint.
To disrupt this planned destiny, we must begin having difficult conversations again.
To disrupt this planned destiny, we must begin having difficult conversations again.
(5) The kind of difficult conversations that I have subsidized and facilitated over the past 22 years.
No compromise - with the agreement to form and structure and the agreement to avoid violence at all costs.
No compromise - with the agreement to form and structure and the agreement to avoid violence at all costs.
(6) These conversations was one of Sovereign's original goals.
The problem has been that unlike debates that we have had with Muslims, Roman Catholics, liberal Christians, atheists, Jehova's Wtinesses, homosexual conservatives...
The problem has been that unlike debates that we have had with Muslims, Roman Catholics, liberal Christians, atheists, Jehova's Wtinesses, homosexual conservatives...
(7) There has been no success in trying to have these conversations with those that support radical subjectivism, open society (the Marcusian type), or those that are considered "woke" Christians.
We hope to change this.
We hope to change this.
*were* not was
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