Emad Mostaque
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They'll be stuck and they'll feel a sense of emptiness.
Will they turn to religion?
Will they turn to political parties?
Something will fill that gap and void.
And those are the stories that allow us to scale as a society because
When we started, we were oral.
We had our families.
We had our tribes.
Then we formed countries.
We formed organizations.
And so we are the stories that make us up.
We identify as a Republican.
We identify as a Barbie lover.
We identify as a nuclear scientist or the schools that we went to.
But it's difficult, especially in a time of polarization, to try and bridge those stories.
Because ultimately, there's a single story, which is we're all human.
But all wars are based on the lie that we're not all human.
Because killing each other is a ridiculous violation of the story that we're human.
But again, we lose sight of that.
It's difficult to unify people.