On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 5:39 AM Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Empathy isn't easy. > When my (almost invariably economically and socially left-leaning) friends who are venting about how awful everything (Trump, Biden, Facebook, Fox News, Amazon, the Democratic party establishment, Republican party, Sangh Parivar, Modi, Boris Johnson, Brexit, ...) is, I have gotten into the habit of saying that I agree with them that the world is polarized. I then say that one way to counter polarization is to build bridges and change minds. I then ask them to list just one thing that their bete noir, The Other Side, is right about. I am surprised by how much people struggle to list just one thing. I find it impossible to list the positives of some (Trump, Brexit, Sangh Parivar), and relatively easy to list one or two positives of others (Republican party, Modi, Boris Johnson). What is your bete noir? And what is one thing that they are right about? Thaths -- Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? Carl: Nuthin'. Homer: D'oh! Carl: Unless you're crooked. Homer: Woo-hoo!
