This discussion is so relevant right now. Europe needs to start this discussion as well.

@Real_Question_Marked

7 жыл бұрын

bj0rn Nationalism is not evil.

@mtrezaie

7 жыл бұрын

+Nick No it is not, but historically it has caused evil (although I would love to be wrong, to stay optimist). Usually mass hysteria does that.

@TheLivirus

7 жыл бұрын

Nick Reed Uh ok?

@pradhiptobagaswicaksono9367

7 жыл бұрын

I don't think Europe is so polarized as the US though

@Real_Question_Marked

7 жыл бұрын

M. Rez. Isolationism during the 1900's was a good thing for America though, especially after the Civil and Spanish American wars. It was only until the Nazi's came along did globalism through imperialism became pertinent with organizations like the UN and then NATO. Isolationism is necessary sometimes, if you have a dirty back yard, you shouldn't be trying to clean up your neighbors, no?

"It's not about race, it's about culture".....Yessss!!!!! FINALLY!!!! Correct. The elephant of truth in the room. Most people aren't racist towards others, we often don't like different Cultural practices.

@216trixie

7 жыл бұрын

***** Nonsensical question. Try again.

@courtneycanchari5161

7 жыл бұрын

So... is that ok? Should we continue being obstinate instead of opening up to differing cultural practices?

@garywood97

7 жыл бұрын

Too many people love shouting "racist" to understand this really obvious point. The number of people in the UK who voted for the explicitly racist party was about 1% of the population. The number who want less immigration is about 70%, last I checked. It's so clear there's a big difference between culture and race.

@DeoMachina

7 жыл бұрын

British people don't want less immigration because of culture though, they want less immigration because the tabloids tell them to hate immigration. That's it.

@DeoMachina

7 жыл бұрын

216trixie Nothing unchecked about it in the UK, current government has been kinda tough on it to be honest.

George Washington said Political Parties would be the bane of this country.

@vaibhavgupta20

7 жыл бұрын

and in turn he created a system that would certainly create 2 big parties.

@justgivemethetruth

7 жыл бұрын

It is not really the parties, it is the covert happenings in those parties and the money that runs them.

@Striker163videos

7 жыл бұрын

What you guys both said is indeed true, sadly.

@user-bo1fg6tw5e

7 жыл бұрын

Striker163 he also said that Europe would drag us into war and other bullshit. Washington was psychic I swear

@vikrammudholkar6854

7 жыл бұрын

Luigi Camp works for india as well. we have loads of regional parties with specific agendas for particular communities who come together with the major parties and form coalition govt.

Nice to hear a reasoned and educated opinion on this issue.

I've seen a bunch of Jonathan Haidt's talks and he is amazing. This stuff is so fascinating to me. What goes on in people's heads and how it relates to everything we do is AWESOME.

@morphd1329

7 жыл бұрын

Read the book "Thinking Fast and Slow" to get a more 'reductionist' perspective that meshes reasonably well with what Haidt talks about.

I'm pretty sure the comment section will be civilized, filled with discussions related to the video, and not filled with partisan comments.

@anthuanleyva

7 жыл бұрын

Well, I have some bad news for you...

@TheNicoliyah

7 жыл бұрын

Algiark ha ha ha ha ha !!!!!!😀😀😀😀

@josephgall2567

7 жыл бұрын

Algiark 😂

@fullmetajacket2090

6 жыл бұрын

fierce tribalism cannot be defeated until human brain chemistry is changed. your insight into this comment section is incredible. can you please tell us when the biological singularity will occur?

@thatguys773

6 жыл бұрын

Algiark disgusting....

Yes! Thank you! Nobody wins in a divided country!

@JaredJanes

7 жыл бұрын

We must rise above the muck!

@ruiningwang1644

7 жыл бұрын

RedEyes I don't know where you are from, but this same kind of extreme partisanship is on the rise in pretty much every country in europe as well. While he is making the case for the US, I believe this is applicable to some extent to every country.

@conscious_being

7 жыл бұрын

Not every country, just Western countries. That is a good thing for the rest of the world. Westerners would be tearing each other apart, instead of banding together and murdering and plundering the rest of the world.

@justgivemethetruth

7 жыл бұрын

We do win if the alternative is to enter into a fascist state in which we cannot escape or vote our way out of ... ever!

@ruiningwang1644

7 жыл бұрын

Conscious Being Just westerners? yeah if you count Ukraine in the west, if you dismiss yellow shirts and red shirts in Thailand, if you ignore tribalism across African culture, if you turn a blind eye on all the warring factions in Syria. Yeah just westerners.

Loved 19:00, knowing how to apologize is as much important as not making mistakes, probably even more relevant.

@fullmetajacket2090

6 жыл бұрын

the irony being that knowing how to apologize is insta-death in politics.

I was like, "Why are they shaking hands?" ... "Oh, it's from 2016"

I'm stunned about how many ignorant people there are here in the comment section saying "No" or denying the most reasoned and educated opinion that has ever been said on this topic, regardless if you vote Douche or Turd

@justgivemethetruth

7 жыл бұрын

I think you need to listen closer, and maybe read some of Haidt's books or at least the reviews of his books on Amazon.

@Prodiggy23

7 жыл бұрын

I think you are uneducated and don't know 1 thing on American politics. You're making great points for say I dont know, Venezuela or Vietnam or North Korea. Maybe you should look into moving to one of those places so your points actually make sense.

@MrPerfume1979

7 жыл бұрын

Sorry. Autocorrect got words wrong. Hope you can piece together what I wanted to say. Fucking autocorrect

@isupportthecurrentthing5225

7 жыл бұрын

You're welcome to your opinion, however your opinion is just that. And opinions aren't fact. Same with Mr. Haidt. He's just expressing his opinion.

@twochordcool

7 жыл бұрын

Hope you're not calling me an SJW you fuckface moron. I'm a social moderate and an economic liberal. I believe SJW's are fucking idiots, getting used by the Democratic Party to fight for things that cost the oligarchs and plutocrats absolutely nothing...so that people can pretend they are making progress while nobody does a fucking thing about the number one issue that effects working class conservatives, moderates and liberals the most: not earning enough money to live because the ultra rich have taken it all....combined with essentials like health care and education costing them too much because of the bloodsucking crony capitalist middle men taking their huge cut.

It will take serious work from both sides if we're going to get through this as a nation.

Haidt is one of the very very very few sober social scientists in today's time.

@garetclaborn

5 жыл бұрын

i disagree that even 1 exists

@itsjeninMass

4 жыл бұрын

He is amazing.

AWESOME..first think of something positive about your "enemy" ...then attempt a conversation all the while keeping empathy in mind. This guy is a genius.

@Skreen32

7 жыл бұрын

it isn't easy, he never said it was easy. To look someone dead in the face and say "I am sorry for having a different opinion, how can we forgive each other and find compromise?" it takes courage and a commitment to what i feel is a sound set of personal morals and values.

@garetclaborn

5 жыл бұрын

empathy is a bad thing taken to an extreme just like anything else. this has the potential to cause people to get a long, it also has the potential to allow the establishment to severely abuse their power

I'm moderate and I can see both sides. I can't wait for respectfulness to be a part of our country again. I can't participate in hate slinging from either party. When the dust settles tomorrow I can finally relax. I am sad about 2016. How the world sees us makes me embarrassed! This is my first time voting and I won't stop because this year was ridiculous. AMERICA NEEDS COUNSELING!! 😨

@kathywolf4558

7 жыл бұрын

Respect for self and for others is sadly lacking. I would like to see respect and integrity in people again instead of this degenerate state they have sunk into. It does not help when people play into agenda stirred through mass media and by politicians and greedy corporate people. There are many problems and they go very deep.

@ToriUptown

7 жыл бұрын

Gabriella Dean when was America respectful? When they held people slaves? When they captured and drugged people so that railroads could be built? When they water hosed children fighting for their rights? I believe the issue is that we believe that America has even been unified or respectful, at least with all its people. Hopefully 2016 woke you all up to what has already been here

@Arachnoscribe

6 жыл бұрын

Hardliners of the ideological left and right should be converted into nutritional supplements... for the betterment of mankind and our world.

@leelinden8107

6 жыл бұрын

A.F. TV: Thinking ... "We are The Sane and Sensible Few who can see through all this petty-@ssed tribalism. Thus, we are the anointed special group that stands head and shoulders above the mass of 'them'... the Anti-Tribalism Tribe™!" Could be onto something here. Gotta go make an interminable, majorly s#!tty think-piece video about it. :-) Sincerely: "Really now ... " indeed. Well observed, Sir!

@jeannemeyer3089

6 жыл бұрын

The mainstream media has fostered hate of each other on the premise of moral superiority , CNN are truly EVIL .

Wow! I love what he says at the end about talking with Uncle Bob. I do that all the time! I don't like debate, I like to share ideas though. I find that if you find common ground you can expand from there and share ideas, the other person will actually hear you and will try to understand. When you start to go too far away from where you agree you just bring the conversation right back around to something you agree on. This is the only way I survive not being left or right lol I'm so grateful for this talk and that all you people enjoyed it! Now get out there and spread the word and spread the love! #spreadthelove

Important talk. Lots to digest. Multiple listens encouraged.

Becoming a huge fan of mr haidt. I've been listening to him since i found out about him yesterday

This has been really helpful to watch. It feels like there might a future. Thank you so much.

Thank you for this talk. I hope we can all move towards thinking, empathy, love, more than disgust and lizard brains of primitive creatures. I think we can choose to rise above what manipulating people want us to fall into in order to control. We can be more. We have to be more in order to have an assemblance of peace and any sort of resolution with anything.

@pradhiptobagaswicaksono9367

7 жыл бұрын

I can't argue with your point. Except, some of the comments in the comment section say otherwise or say something that has nothing to do with this talk

@JackvanHouwelingen

7 жыл бұрын

And i training my dog sniffing weed , she is getting pretty good .

Nice timing, read the related WP article this morning. Very insightful!

It's misleading to ask, "Are we drawbridge-uppers or drawbridge-downers?" The more relevant question is, "Should the drawbridge be always down, regardless of the dangers? Or should it be sometimes up and sometimes down, depending on the dangers?"

@garywood97

7 жыл бұрын

I think that's was supposed to be implicit in the metaphor. That's why he used the idea of a draw bridge rather than a wall.

@cameronmiller6240

7 жыл бұрын

Mike Ferrin how can asking a question be misleading?

@rmcd823

6 жыл бұрын

Mike Ferrin Your question is an answer

@Hrothgrar

6 жыл бұрын

That's the point of keeping both political perspectives. That way we have a better understanding of when to put it up and put it down. It's a metaphor regarding the dangers of polarization. I think the question you posed is exactly what Jonathan was getting at. You want BOTH bridge uppers and downers.

@JerFhilm

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah there's truth in both, the truth of charity and the truth of wariness. It's our job to discriminate which truth is applicable to the situation as we see it as an individual, then come together as a collective and talk about it. We're a group animal, we grew this way :D

This was truly excellent. Thank you, TED - I forgive you for your missteps.

Fear, anger, aggression... these are paths to the dark side. DId yoda teach you nothing???? Let go of your hate people.

@Real_Question_Marked

7 жыл бұрын

TheDMBfan truly wonderful the mind of a child is; learning you are.

@TehDMBfan

7 жыл бұрын

Nick Reed lmao why are you so triggered? Don't you agree that hatred is bad?

@TheGranti7a

7 жыл бұрын

TheDMBfan Yes, what yoga can offer is a lifelong journey. Yoga is not a physical/mental exercise program that fits into one's lifestyle. Yoga is a life path... What does (your) life look like inside a yoga commitment?

@TheGranti7a

7 жыл бұрын

+Nick Reed Emotions are neither good or bad. They ALL exist as brilliant intelligence that have each helped us survive throughout human evolution. Invitation: learn what the genius of healthy emotions really means. There is really much that is incredibly useful, to discover.

@Real_Question_Marked

7 жыл бұрын

TheDMBfan Those are yoda quotes bro, here's a fitting one. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate, leads to suffering! I'm not triggered at all.

One of the best talks I have heard. I agree 100% all the points that Jonathan Haidt made.

Always rewarding to listen to Haidt.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH! So sooo right.

Jonathan Haidt's words is timeless. The title does this talk no justice.

This is very helpful 👍

There are some great insights here!

I'd wager the biggest obstacle is the difference between American original form of democracy vs social democracy. I'm not disagreeing with social programs, namely structural, that are fiscally responsible and have a realistic goal... I am not seeing a fiscally sustainable social agenda being promoted. And absolutely, this is about culture not race, but in America, society = culture + government. The cultures some immigrants come from do not have an independent culture from government and they are not assimilating because a great number of Americans now also believe in humanist social democracy that is authoritarian in nature. We need to increase trust and start learning to communicate, commentary online seems to actually be helping this.

@wendynobre3013

6 жыл бұрын

Músicas Simone é simaria

I would love to hear this guys take today.

He genuinely seems like such a great guy 👍

Wow... Another very informative TED talk.

The part at 18:20 about getting people to raise their hands is somewhat interesting. I know anger and worry are generally viewed as negatives, but I think a lot of people also get enjoyment out of finding things to be angry about. People like controversy. If you want to rouse the masses into doing something good, find a way to do something good which also sticks it to the person they hate.

Jonathan Haidt is an inspiration! "We need a new form of empathy, that reaches across divides..." "Start by appreciating something about the despised other". I loved his book "The Righteous Mind" -we all like to see our values as right, and ourselves as righteous.

Excellent discussion.

I would like to recommend that a way to end the division is to have a national conscription for everyone. Choices are military, Peace Corp, or something similar. One of the reasons for the cooperation of the "Greatest Generation" was the fact that so many people were moved around. Midwest met South, Brooklyn met Peoria, and so on. With the Internet and narrow casting facilitating echo chambers and bubbles of sameness, it seems the only solution for a decent future is to mix up people just like a cake. Separated ingredients =ecchh. Mixed =yum. By becoming aware of others who are very different from yourself and working with them it might help. There are better examples and better ways to say this and I hope you can do it.

Great advice !!!!!!

I we on different parts of the political spectrum would even sit down in person to discuss a topic--that would be the first step. Or, if discussing over the internet--with the goals of being intellectually honest with ourselves and one another and trying to understand the other person's premise--where she/he is coming from--and to find out what we have in common. Often on the internet (here too), it appears that some people posting view postings as a debate to "win"--with that kind of attitude--nobody wins, nobody learns.

@daniel4647

7 жыл бұрын

That is the human conditions, naturally we don't argue to solve a problem, we argue to prove our superiority to heighten our chances of spreading our genes. It's a mating ritual gone haywire, like almost all things humans do. Why do you think it hurts us so much to be wrong? It's not just imagined pain either, studies done show that the same parts of our brain lights up when we're proven wrong as when we're pricked by a needle. Our brain will always try to avoid pain, and the easiest way of doing that is to ignore evidence or rational arguments and just believe you're right no matter what. That's the default a lot of people will go with, a lot of the time because they just don't have the energy to keep arguing or look up the facts or get involved in the whole convoluted system these facts are often contained in. Like the guy in the video said, we're playing completely different videogames. And although all of us could understand the other persons game, and some do, a lot of people are just not going to have the time and energy to do this when it's so much easier to just think "that person is evil and a liar". We have stuff to do you know. I know that in the world of a gun tooting bible thumping racist capitalist Trump supporter he or she is right, just and good. And even though it would probably be better for all of us if I tried to understand them it just so tempting to just declare that person an evil moron and move on. I for one think this has gone beyond the point of talking, this is headed for divorce, and divorces get messy. Another TED talk called The Math of Love or something like that talks about how similar what happens when people get divorces is to countries going to war, pretty interesting stuff.

This is a much needed lesson:)

"Without mutual trust and understanding than all that will remain in this world is fear and terror." "A 'Peace' where people understand each other is nothing but fiction."

Anyone attempting civil discourse in our culture is not praised but condemned for being civil to someone in the "deplorable" caste. It takes courage and tolerance to listen.

Brilliant.

Wow, a reasonably good presentation TED. It's been a long time since I've seen that.

@barbaradillon5463

7 жыл бұрын

Why not, at least she's sane and has knowledge and expertise--which is more than what we got with bozo.

@NicoSmets

7 жыл бұрын

I'm thinking you put your answer somewhere in the wrong box...

@danielhaynes6255

6 жыл бұрын

Nico Smets No. You just never looked.

@nathanbruce1992

5 жыл бұрын

Largesse1000: the irony of blaming “the left” about a talk about the folly of tribalism

I like that this video is being retrospective on the subject rather than slamming one side over the other. I think everyone's ready for things to calm down over the next little while. I'm not even American and the last few weeks have been stressful.

The voice of wisdom

i hate to try and correct someone who's been studying this stuff for longer than I've been alive, but our intelligence and speech evolved, by definition, to help us survive. I would imagine that both perceiving reality as it actually is and being able to justify yourself to other people would be selected for, so it's probably some of each. I hope that didn't come off as too decisive.

@Snarflelocker

Жыл бұрын

Nah it’s a great addition

Looks brilliant

Jonathan Haidt is excellent!

This is a goldmine

It is just as Tulsi Gabbard said a year ago. We can heal and go forward in unity when we stop the division, the name-calling, and all the other rascality that has been encouraged by the MIC that wants to keep us all divided.

This man has described America's 'new' social problem and he is spot on! The 'producer' and/or the director of this set-up however is very much an amateur; the mikes are on the downstage side of the speakers head, the stools are too high as well as too close to the front seats and there is too much lighting on the empty space behind the speakers.

I have hope. I'm not scared. Together we can make it. Tony Robbins, Darren Hardy, Grand Cardone, etc...

We don't need understanding far more than empathy.

I'm stunned to see that less than 1/3 of comments reacted with partisanship and rejection of what is clearly objective science and social theory. Well done Chris... your audience seems to be filled with moderate liberals and not new age "leftists". I am pleasantly surprised. As well, once again very impressed with Dr. Haidt, to tackle such a sensitive issue in such an empathetic and honest way. Didn't think he could beat his last TED talk. Hurray to the two of you!

@garetclaborn

5 жыл бұрын

i get where you are coming from but i think the general stigma on partisanship is unwise. we should be able to be partisan, bias, and still manage to be honest. personally i do not think the political sides are remotely equal in america as far as using manipulation tactics and corruption. they both do so but it's obvious that one side has done a great deal more than the other. i do not wish to get along with that party, though i'd be happy if i could get along with those who vote for that party. it is a very real threat and it is pitting people against each other on purpose. we should not be reasonable toward it

A house divided cannot stand damn this is so relevant

2020 just told this guy to hold its beer

Johnathan gives brilliant insights into the psyche behind modern socioeconomics. Speaking on his last point near the end about stepping briefly outside the matrix, I read an article the other day that made me realize something similar, that I couldn't believe I never realized before. That the genre of Sci-fi especially Star Trek, and a few of the newer shows, have been doing that for decades. I never questioned why Star Trek was the show that aired the first interracial kiss, or put a spotlight on a particular injustice currently happening through the lens of ancient history of the Star Trek universe, I just applauded them for being ahead of their time, which I still do. Part of the reason they could pull off that type of progressive themed episode though, was because, like Johnathan said, it allowed the viewer to step outside their matrix! It was no longer an African American Black woman kissing a white man, it was just two space travelers from a different time so far in the future it felt unlike anything in our present. So the other worldly, unfamiliar feeling allowed most people to drop their personal feelings since they didn't have any preconceived bias of a world so foreign to them.

@paulanthonypadilla2751

Жыл бұрын

This is such a brilliant comment! Do you have any ideas on how people nowadays can do to step out of their matrix? Personally, I think former 2020 Democratic candidate Andrew Yang's approach of talking to primarily conservative truck drivers and persuading them about the beauty of UBI (universal basic income) is one way for two people (Yang and the truck driver) to step out the matrix. And do you mind sharing the article or telling me the publisher of the article? Again, your insights are greatly appreciated as I'm writing a political science paper lol

@thelemon5069

10 ай бұрын

The matrix itself is an allegory for being transgender

Am I the only one who already knows and is surrounded by people of very different opinions ???

This elusive new form of empathy they speak of has existed for a long time. The problem is thatost of the modern world has largely abandoned it. Those of you saying respect I say no, as by definition respect means to have high admiration for or of. This is akin to putting people up on a pedestal. Instead this abandoned form of empathy is more commonly known as civility and suggests that we acknowledge our differences,agree to disagree and most importantly treat each other fairly and equally despite said differences. Do unto others as you would want done unto thy self! Indeed civility is the beating heart of a properly functioning and thriving species!

The president should not be about the shiniest of 2 turds

@pradhiptobagaswicaksono9367

7 жыл бұрын

I see what u did there

@fullmetajacket2090

6 жыл бұрын

if the president were not about being the shiniest turd and US voters were *somehow* able to hold back their tribalism for 1 election cycle the result would be an extremely bland middle of the road president-elect that would focus on legislation and all kinds of boring stuff that might actually help the middle and lower classes. trump got elected because his politics are super sexy provocateurism and he got enough poorly-educated whites riled up to out-vote the dems. simple as that.

@SamSam-il6ec

5 жыл бұрын

Abe Lincoln said that.

@garetclaborn

5 жыл бұрын

well for one side i can see that argument; but to the other trump is not a turd at all. actually the best president in my life and most old school republicans i know think the same

@garetclaborn

5 жыл бұрын

@American Fuel TV they also have politics in places like the Netherlands you know, where they have 5

Learn to love the differences in culture

What is needed for this country is respect for each other's sides. We all need to approach our neighbor of different political opinions and start disintegrating the sense of gap. We live in a country of Americans, and each one of us is our people.

Very informative and well reasoned. Tribalism seems to be a self-defeating proposition for any democracy. As we shed successively more caustic generations, society just moves closer to ultimate hopelessness. I wonder how universal this failed trait is, and to take it a step further if it could be at least a partial explanation for the Fermi Paradox.

verry good

Both sides are right. One in the spirit of charity and one in the spirit of protection. Everything has pros and cons, projections of positivity and negativity of our understanding. Everything is both, how you see things changes with the way you approach them.

By putting a premium on their use, we all tacitly agree on science’s huge value and reason’s huge value, and by protesting successfully when we don’t receive equal societal treatment, we tacitly agree that nobody is inherently better than one another. Given that these things are largely responsible for our coming out of millennia of tyranny and misery, I think we have better reasons to unite than we have to divide.

Humans ARE different, in mind and/or body. There is no legitimate question about that. But we must still figure out how to live together in a pluralist society, which means we must tolerate 'others', not embrace or respect whatever lunacy they happen to believe or practice in contravention of necessarily secular law.

I’m not sure hat I agree that we’re all the same. But that should be ok. We accept and as much as possible embrace the differences for a common good

this guy knows what he's talking about. Sweden is so successful because of their homogeneity. take that away and you take away trust in the social system

@Ermude10

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, which is quite unfortunate. Swedes are proud of their "helpful" nature and society, but when it gets overloaded it breaks from within and without the trust it turns to hostility.

@joshtep6784

6 жыл бұрын

You need to draw conclusions from the whole video

@Carloss86py

5 жыл бұрын

Adam Jacobs, for me the issue is cultural assimilation. It's not about physical looks or race, it's about culture.

@orppranator5230

5 жыл бұрын

Adam Jacobs I’m a white American. My best friend is half Arab. He absolutely supports keeping the homogeneity of countries at the 90%+ of whatever race is there. Yet, it’s not about skin color, it’s about culture- stop twisting it to mean “racism will destroy us” when it’s really “people who have completely different morals will destroy us”.

@theaviationist.5719

5 жыл бұрын

@Oppranator.. So your half Arab friend wants to keep it 90%+ white and him being one of the lucky 10% that got a chance for his immigrant Arab father or mother moving to America.. lol

Look up Gary Zukav, Ethos ,Yuval Harari.

'Now it's time to bind the wounds of division, come together as one people' -Trump

I invoke Love, Peace, Racial and Ethnic Unity in the whole World of the past, SPECIALLY THE PRESENT, future, in between times, outside time, in all timelines and transcending all space and time. By the Will of the Infinite, for the Good of the All.

One concern is that while it is true that paining the Population of the opposing party with the 'disturbing/disgusting' characteristics of the Candidate, there is a complex inter-relationship between them. Political Identity has been found to be a core-level identifier for individuals. So perhaps the characteristics of representatives start to filter into the identities of the voters?

He is brilliant, I would like to hear a bit more about capitalisms' impact and advertisings' impact on our cultures

This is the most important topic of the 21st century.

Isn't it possible that we could emphasize as a society that all humans are the same, without taking an assimilation approach? Isn't there some value in recognizing the beauty in other cultures?

@brandonsingh1721

5 жыл бұрын

No, I am afraid, based on what I have read it is likely that tribalism will be at the forefront of human psychology as it has always been since the beginning of social mammals.

I subscribed.

If this is how bad it was 3 years ago.. where are we now?

Spread the wealth and every one will get a long much better. You are over thinking this.

Wars, instabilities, deprivation of resources are the driving force for the people to leave from one place to another. I don't think people want to go to a place where they would get discriminated intentionally, but if only we could stop causing all of these things in the first place, then we would not be seeing so many people from less stable regions fleeing from wars or economic miseries to a much stable wealthy countries to save their own lives. But again, developed countries preyed on less developed countries in order to make their own society wealthier and advanced. Colonialism, slavery and imperialism have been the most shameful reasons why the West enables to enjoy much higher quality of lives and civilizations than the rest of the world.

@daniel4647

7 жыл бұрын

Truth. Fact is there just isn't enough resources to go around, if nobody is poor nobody will be willing to harvest sugar for next to nothing, sugar will become really expensive, companies won't make much of a profit selling it anymore, same goes for every single product in the world. Wars are almost always fought over resources, and the only way we can get the equality we need to avoid it is by all of us who live in developed countries to sacrifice that for a lower standard, much lower, in order to raise the masses up to an equal level. It's easy to think that with all the money there is in the world we could all just share and everyone would be rich, but the truth is that the only thing that would do would be to make money worthless. The whole idea of money makes it very hard to see what we actually have to work with, most people don't even think about it. Almost everyone knows what a liter or gallon of gasoline costs in their area, but how many takes the time to figure out how much there would be for each human if we were to divide all the oil reserves of the world between us equally? I haven't either, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be very much. It reminds me of when a casino trade in your money for chips, it doesn't look like money so it's easier to throw it away, same thing Microsoft did when they traded your money for points on the Xbox 360, it obscure the actual value. Money does this for everything we have in the world, including human labor and it totally obscures the issue that we don't have enough to sustain the entire population of the world at the level of consumption we have here in the west. And I'm not talking about the rich, but the average person, or even those who live conservatively and feel like they don't consume very much. We're always talking about how green living will solve things, but it won't really, because we still require consuming a lot of resources on making those solar panels, or fixing those wind turbines or making and disposing of those batteries, it's actually going the opposite direction despite peoples best intentions. A nuclear power plant is far more resources effective than any green energy. Growing food using distilled chemical toxins to ward of pests or genetically manipulated live stock is far more effective than "ecologic" food. If we we're going to convert everything to "ecological" food we'd have to let two thirds of the planet starve to death. Same is true for green power, it would cost at least 10 times as much resources as a nuclear power plant in everything from space to materials used. So while we're patting ourselves on the back for going solar someone else is working in terrible conditions mining the materials used and constructing the components of that panel. If they didn't the average person simply wouldn't be able to afford it. It sucks, and I really don't know if there is any solution to it. But I think a good start would be to get rid of money and take stock of everything we have on Earth and start working on a plan to raise production with minimum labor and distribute the resources more fairly world wide. Which I guess is kind of what a lot of us are doing with the exception of getting rid of money, money which now servers mainly to keep a large portion of the population blind to the catastrophe we're walking into.

I dare all politically active people... to... Go to someone's Holiday party who happens to be of another party application from yours; and just become a part of their family. All members in a family are similar, but all are so different.

It's about respecting the institutions.

Haidt is quite outstanding.

If love is the opposite of disgust, then what is the opposite of hate?

@username7735

7 жыл бұрын

simple, opposite of hate is "Like"

@notwhatiwasraised2b

7 жыл бұрын

Desire is the opposite of disgust. Indifference is the opposite of both love and hate.

@jeschiefboy

7 жыл бұрын

savor

omg this just made me have a giant "aha!" moment. wow. this guy is def someone to pay attention to.

@billburwood7047

3 жыл бұрын

Don't be fooled into believing diversity is bad and prejudice justifiable

Towards the end: I don't agree with creationism but I like how it's so neat and sweet and explains how we got here so simply. lol

What about Inteliigence?

The foundational divide is that we no longer have a common idea of the good.

wow

Jonathan Haidt can save our country.

Haidt is spot on

This interviewer’s questions shows he has a very good sense of intellectual smell

I was wondering when he would hit on the topic of the size of a tribe. A few years ago my tribe was America and all Americans. Today my tribe is those that share my ideology, morals, values, and culture

Interesting that this video is 20:18 long

little did we know what was about to hit us 18:19

We've had a divide in this country many times throughout our history. How about the slavery issue? Or the Vietnam War? The assassinations in the 60's. It was not rainbow and butterflies. The American Revolution was a country divided. This is another such time. Upheaval causes major changes. In our present state the bitterness will result in a major shift. Which side prevails will determine what country we live in

@Snarflelocker

Жыл бұрын

Ya but each of those had clear historic vindication. What are we battling on that history will view among the great examples you gave? Cheers to your comment.

I don’t think the different sides involved will come together. It will continue to get more divided. Secession seems to me to be the best solution, or things might get really ugly. Let California, Oregon, and Washington leave the union together as its own smaller country. Let Texas and whatever other states want to leave with it go. Let some states become their own countries all together (many states are comparable in size to European countries anyway - as well as being more culturally homogeneous allowing for the Scandinavian models to be more possible). Let’s think about peaceful ways to coexist instead of trying to control each other with the big unwieldy federal club we’ve been using to bop the other side on the head with every four years. It is better to be peaceful neighbors than violent and contentious roommates.

@bonniegaither3994

9 ай бұрын

And THIS attitude is EXACTLY WHY we can no longer come together as a nation.

What's interesting about his point of the "purification" of the two major US political parties, is that it seems that their rhetoric especially on social issues is more divided and "purified." But, when you look at issues regarding war and the general structure of political and economic heiracrchy, I.E. imperialism and corporatism, both parties have never been more united.

Sorry doctor, but opposite from Love is Indifference. The opposite of disgust is desire/passion. We cant mix passion to love.