Name: What Can We Do To Cross The Partisan Divide?
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T20:03:24.000Z
Duration: 13 min 27 s
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It's David Hoffman filmmaker talking to you about something that really does upset me and you're about to see a clip where I went to a guy who I consider an expert at this we have in this country.

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And I think in a lot of countries in the world, certainly in the democracies a partisan divide there were two groups who seemingly hate each other.

I remember a time back in 1969 when the country was fractured over the Vietnam War 50 50 where families broke up and wouldn't have dinner with each other.

I was interviewing people at that time, and I was hearing terrible stories.

Well, we weren't one, and I feel that now if you look at the comments so many.

But not all are anger filled, rage filled, belittling the other guy almost like we're in a war and the country can't sustain it.

So I asked Bill Shireman, one of my close colleagues, and the guy that I worked for on several occasions.

I mean, he specializes in dealing in bringing together people who hate each other.

Seemingly, he's done it spectacularly in the environmental movement, where he's brought corporations with eco warriors into the same room, and they end up most of the time talking to each other.

So I'm honored to be doing this interview you're about to see with Bill Sharman, and you know why I did it?

Because I'm really upset about this and I'd like to help so built.

I have thousands of subscribers telling me they're very unhappy with the split in the country.

The anger, the almost the heat, the hate for one side or the other.

What do you feel is going on before I ask you what to do about it?

But hate cells, hate cells, it comes down to that.

We do not hate each other as much as we think we do.

But hate is such a compelling way to draw clicks and draw audience that, uh, that is what the media focuses on.

That is what politics focuses on, and that is what advertisers pay for.

So that, fundamentally, is the problem that we're facing really on.

About 15% of people on the left and 15% of people on the right actually hate each other.

They have denied the humanity in one another because they are warriors and they have decided that that is the enemy.

And those are the voices that we're hearing.

And we on Lee hear those voices because they sell advertisements.

I was in the offices of a senior executive at at one of the big you know, social media companies yesterday, and she distilled down what they do into this.

She wants to do good, but she's in a company that sells ads.

So we need thio change the system so that I really love connection, hope, collaboration, work.

Um, my audience is very upset about this.

I have my opinion, but it seems as though some of my subscribers are turning everything into politics.

I could be talking about a hot dog stand and they make a political statement.

I could be talking about a piece of bluegrass music, and it has a political connotation.

The design is the algorithm that attracts maximum eyeballs attached to unconscious brains.

Uh, that's the algorithm of sales, and that algorithm has detected with nobody, you know, mentally running it.

It's just a group of, you know, of bits and bytes.

Uh, that, uh when when we hate, we are motivated because we want to kill, we want to act.

And so we're scanning all these inputs that we're getting and our brains are being triggered scientifically by the power of this algorithm to look for and detect signs of hate directed toward us.

Everything we listen to when we're on social media and increasingly on traditional media, everything we listen to our brains, they're saying, Okay, I'm looking for the hate And as soon as I get the hate, I'm gonna know who I can kill.

I could easily turn what you've said into blaming them.

Yeah, but am Facebook not blame me if I'm a participant in this.

I mean, um, I an innocent, ignorant bystander in this.

What I try to do is I try and cross the partisan divide in every comment I make and thousands of people write me their appreciation for that.

Um, is it therefore there isn't my fault.

This gets to the root of it and back brains control 99.9999% of what we do.

What we think are four brains are conscious.

Here is the only point at which were conscious and aware and making conscious choices.

We need to slow down our lives enough to give our four brains a chance to correct our back brains on this.

Now, the reality is that we have an inborn concern about the other Games comes from two million years of living in tribes where we had our 50 people that were our community, and that community was a diverse community.

Among those 50 people there were the artists and the merchants and the cooks and the mothers and caretakers and the invalid tze and those in need and so on.

It was a whole community that together and, ah, we looked outside and we said There's another tribe That tribe is a danger to us potentially that's the other and, ah, and and we worried about the other.

That is a back brain function, and it is stunning how quickly we other.

So here's, you know something that Professor John Powell, my colleague at UC Berkeley High School of Business, has really studied and is brilliant about it.

We have a choice toe, other or or to belong.

This is the terms that he that he uses when we look at, let's say, Facebook, Google, big corporations, big government progressives, conservatives Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton.

Every word that I just said created a another write is either Ma, this is me either either us or this is them.

And we do this automatically before we even know it.

The trick for us is to consciously, um, focus on belonging, not uttering but belonging to recognize that we all belong.

That these 50 people that were in our tribe for two million years each of those people is different from us because that's how you have a community.

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