Let’s talk! – 24 Sept 2018
Excerpts: A field guide to bad faith arguments | No, I will not debate you | Against civility, or why Habermas recommends a wild public sphere
Discourse
Communications breakdown: Can we even talk about our environmental and energy problems?
Conversations that seek genuine understanding by all sides ultimately require a common frame of reference. If we aren’t talking about the same things, how can we understand one another? We usually refer to this as talking past one another. Sometimes this happens because we haven’t taken the time to understand what our conversation partner is … Read more
Hegemonic Resistance to Change
“Know your enemy” has always been central to winning any struggle.
Social Inertia in the face of Climate Change
Why is it that human civilization has been unable to take the steps required to forestall the devastating consequences of climate change, which may even include societal collapse, when faced with a scientific consensus that it is a very real phenomenon and requires urgent action?