Brené Brown

I mean, if I look back at Braving the Wilderness, that was maybe the only prophetic book that I think I've ever written.

I don't think I'm prophet-like, but man, did I call what was happening in terms of the big sort into ideological bunkers, where we're going to get to a place where...

I don't even know you, but I'm going to call you friend because we hate the same people.

And you over there, I actually do love you.

You're a family member of mine, but I'm not, you know, because we don't believe in the same things.

You have no meaning in my life.

Like, it's like we have gotten to the place where ideological bunkers are

And those are so dangerous because here you and I, like, let's say, let's say that we have the same belief around immigration.

So we're going to flip this table over and we're going to get behind it in our ideological bunker.

And we're going to be like, yeah, we're right.

And these guys are fucking crazy.

You know, and then one day I'm going to turn to you and say, you know, one thing I'm wondering about is how are we going to solve the problem?

with the folks coming over in the dinghies from France because I don't think we're going to be able to go without solving it because we do have an employment issue and a housing crisis.

And then you go, you're out.

My care for you, my connection with you, completely dependent on you not questioning anything we agreed to back here.

Well, that's counterfeit connection.

What's real connection?

Like, I got to know what's going on in your mind because your face is like, we got to play poker.

We have to put that on our agenda.

What are you thinking?