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Introducing My Book — Beyond Reason (A Remastered Edition)
Over the next 7 posts, or so, I will be featuring parts of my latest book, Beyond Reason: Why We Fail at Understanding Each Other here on my blog. If you want to support my work, check it out.
It is my core belief that one of the reasons why polarization is on the increase across the Globe, is because we do not listen or engage with each other in person as much as we once did. We let our echo chambers online dictate much of our thinking. And that is to our detriment.
In my book, I address some of the ways we can fix that.
If we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet. — Bertrand Russell
When you are reading the book, I want you to keep one question in mind. Think about how you know something to be true.
Some time ago, I was at a campfire in Slovakia with a few friends and we stumbled into a conversation about whether same-sex relations are natural.
If you don’t know, Slovakia is a comparatively conservative country to other countries in the European…
