One pre-requisite for having conversations - grown-up ones for preference, but really any kind - with people is to talk to them about things that they actually care about.
It feels like this is a knack that many leftists and liberals have lost and are yet to recover (unwarranted generalisation?), and that some of the worst people in the world have learned.
The latest edition of 'Our Opinions Are Correct' podcast, hosted by Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders in which Peter Pomerantsev talks about his book, 'How to Win a Propaganda War' also speaks to this.
Hein de Haas's 'How Migration Really Works: A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics' - on my mental 'to-read' pile - feels like a contribution to grown-up conversations on this.
I've heard him speak and I feel like no-one - left or right, unless really well-informed on this topic to quite a granular level - would've left that hall without at least one of their cherished assumptions or myths having been challenged.
Grown-up conversations are not the current fashion.
They sure aren’t
One pre-requisite for having conversations - grown-up ones for preference, but really any kind - with people is to talk to them about things that they actually care about.
It feels like this is a knack that many leftists and liberals have lost and are yet to recover (unwarranted generalisation?), and that some of the worst people in the world have learned.
https://ketelby.blogspot.com/2020/02/two-cheers-for-the-EU.html
The latest edition of 'Our Opinions Are Correct' podcast, hosted by Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders in which Peter Pomerantsev talks about his book, 'How to Win a Propaganda War' also speaks to this.
https://www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes/2024/12/12/episode-166-manufacturing-loneliness
Hein de Haas's 'How Migration Really Works: A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics' - on my mental 'to-read' pile - feels like a contribution to grown-up conversations on this.
I've heard him speak and I feel like no-one - left or right, unless really well-informed on this topic to quite a granular level - would've left that hall without at least one of their cherished assumptions or myths having been challenged.
Great recommendation. Will read.
Love it!
Another great piece! A Xmas present for you: https://youtu.be/k9jTonnpRo0?si=pAYPZ4bFYmIIsmus
Better than the original!