Sometimes it seems as though our disagreements — over everything from politics to business to love to art to design to the designated hitter rule — are more serious and more divisive than ever before. People are making emotional, knee-jerk decisions, then standing by them, sometimes fighting to the death to defend their position.
I don’t believe it has to be this way. I don’t believe humans evolved to be so bad at making decisions, so poor at changing minds, so violent in arguing our point of view. I am well aware of how split our world has become, but I don’t think the current state of affairs is built into our very nature.
In the old days, we had the time and inclination to consider the implications of a decision. Everyone wasn’t in quite so much of a hurry. At the same time, most conversations (and most arguments) were local ones, conducted between people who knew each other.
Today, it’s very different. We’re should change that.
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