It appears to clarify matters by narrowing vision. In contrast, high conflict imagines an “us,” whose ideas must prevail, and a “them,” whose books must burn. Amanda Ripley, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why 1 likes Like Self-sufficiency was a religion for Rescorla. But under the best circumstances, that conflict, even when “stressful and heated,” keeps us “open to the reality that none of us has all the answers.” In “healthy conflict,” we defend what we hold dear but understand what others do, and, even when we don’t revise our views, find a way to work with them. We find ourselves in conflict with other partisans. We need conflict because human beings, limited in experience, biased but needing to act, are natural partisans. Ripley uses to describe our bitter politics and much else.
It “felt like curiosity was dead.”Ĭuriosity is a casualty of “high conflict,” a term that Ms. Ripley reflects, journalists who cared about telling the truth in all its complexity were preaching to a “shrinking choir of partisans.” Those who still read the news searched it for weapons to use against enemies. Amanda Ripley, a journalist whose first book, “The Unthinkable,” was about how people survive disasters, has covered “all manner of human misery.” Her latest book, “High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out,” is prompted by misery of the American political kind. The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disasters Strike- And Why The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disasters Strike.
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