Mónica Guzmán
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We have that need for closure.
We want certainty.
But certainty is the arch villain of curiosity.
And the conclusions kill all these questions.
We end up too rigid and so divided.
That's right.
Yeah.
Right.
I mean, that's a big piece of what's going on now.
Politics a few decades ago didn't feel quite so morally imperative, right?
It felt a little more like, oh, these are disagreements about policy and ideology.
And yes, there are some really high stakes issues here and there.
Nowadays, in part because our identities have stacked so neatly into these large two piles, there's others, right?
There's people in the
big two piles where you can kind of predict just by people's traits where they're likely to fall on that divide.
It's made it so much more personal.
Politics is so personal, right?
Where your candidate loses, it's not just that candidate, it's not just that race, you lose.
You're losing your country.
It feels horrible.