An opportunity was lost with the collapse of the #IntellectualDarkWeb. Logic only travels so far in the absence of social trust, and building trust rich social networks across tribes is extremely hard to do.

This is part of what I argued to #SamHarris
We live in an era of echo chambers. I won't listen to your information because I don't trust your sources, because I see them as being ill-motivated and not just potentially wrong.

Wherever you stand on voter fraud, the Covid vaccine (both of which Sam and I get in to...)

Yes!

I detect sarcasm from my friend @fullydavid, but let me address it. Because part of the value in speaking to Dave Rubin was to give me the chance to speak to other things.

I won't tag Rubin here because I don't think it's necessary. Others will do what they will. [1/43]

https://twitter.com/fullydavid/status/1455455869454405636

Here of course is the conversation, for The John Wood Jr. Show, that occasions the subject: [2/43]

I enjoyed, was even encouraged, by this conversation between @marclamonthill @ConceptualJames & @peterboghossian on CRT. I highly recommend you watch it.

But I also have to say something about it's aftermath.

This conversation was a victory because it showed an exchange between knowledgeable individuals on both sides of a highly charged topic that clarified differences, tested logical rigor & allowed for further reasoning on the subject.

It did so while maintaining a respect...

Welcoming @tristanharris to the pod in an hour. A man to be admired.

Likewise @coldxman. In their recent convo Coleman makes a point I'd like to drill to the center of everyone's brains.

Generically politically informed people are as bias prone as anyone. More statistics... ...do not reduce tribal impulses that filter such information through its prejudices. Perversely therefore "recommending people get more informed may even exacerbate the problem."

"It's not a problem of intelligence. It's a much deeper problem." He's right.

Now as Tristan...

So at @braverangels we commissioned a poll from @YouGov to survey American's thoughts about the possibility of violence following a contested election, and the possibility that the election may in fact be rigged.

Thread (1/18)

https://twitter.com/JohnRWoodJr/status/1314277196119175169

The poll, and public letter we are circulating that I retweeted above, were covered yesterday in this featured piece from @USATODAY.

Here is the article if you want to read it (2/18):

usatoday.com/story/news/pol…

Hey folks!

Beautiful to have people taking an interest in my work and commentary.

Here's me & some of the people I've been honored to speak and think with for anyone to consider:

w/ @BretWeinstein

With @arthurbrooks (and my brother @ciaranjoconnor)

braverangels.org/arthur-brooks-…

From @alexandernaz at Yahoo News (Respectful complaint coming - a thread:)

"Political forecasters believe that the extent and success of recovery from the pandemic, which has so far killed 100,000 Americans and left more than 30 million without jobs..." 1/9 "... will determine whether President Trump holds on to the White House and down ballot Republicans retain their seats. But for Democrats and many of their allies, talk of an economic recovery is premature."

Here is the balanced way a journalist might write that last part: 2/9

So we're holding a debate tonight on mainstream media coverage of COVID-19 featuring hopefully, YOU! + @JohnGable & @juliemastrine from @AllSidesNow. If you follow us @braverangels you should follow All Sides.

Same for @KnowTheFlipSide whose founder @AnnafiWahed joined us...1/6 ...on The Braver Angels Podcast alongside my partner @ciaranjoconnor, radio host Denise Quinn & the phenomenal @moniguzman whose empathetic insights into race, politics and media are a buried treasure.

Listen below. But here's the thing...(2/6)

braverangels.org/the-media-and-…

I suppose that is because some people & views are utterly un-relatable to us.

Or even if not, the imperative of our own interests or the zealotry of our own beliefs prevents us from reasoning patiently together when stakes get high. 1/15

https://twitter.com/JohnRWoodJr/status/1247302555601784832

This is however why the work of organizations like @USConvoProject, @weavetheppl, @LivingRoomConvo, @braverangels and others matter, however.

We need processes and structure for the type of communication that works. And we need to make it scale. 2/15

Not quite fair, Daily Wire. Don Lemon doesn't say that he laughed on accident.

But what he does give here is a clarification. An apology would be better...

https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1222361394009513984

What concerns me is that major CNN journalists and others representing mainstream media institutions are so comfortable talking politics before the nation as if they were having social conversations in their living room.

They're human w biases & will find certain things funny...

"Rabbi Heschel spoke those words during the last years of King’s life, when 72 percent of whites and 55 percent of blacks disapproved of King’s opposition to the Vietnam War and his efforts to eradicate poverty in America."

But that's not a personal approval rating.

https://twitter.com/pdacosta/status/689138486373265408

What I just quoted was the source quote (from an Op Ed by Cornel West) from which that stat is drawn in the article this gentleman quotes.

I'm not necessarily disputing the central claim here. But King's civil rights efforts were always more popular than his anti-war and later