Rick Hanson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
to appeals for grievance.
We see that in our politics today.
Josh is better than me, for sure.
Appeals to grievance.
And we see how vulnerable and easy it is to establish in-group identity by aiding an out-group of one kind or another, demonizing them.
We're very vulnerable there.
On the other hand, I think ultimately love is more powerful than hate.
And we need to find ways today
to scale up to 8 billion, what worked inside our bands of 50 or so people who spent most of their lives together.
And that's what the Global Compassion Coalition is about.
And I think that'll be the defining challenge of the 21st century.
Can we scale to 8 billion?
What has worked so well for 97% of the time our species walked the earth.
Thanks for letting me blather on there.
I love the question because it's really practical.
And at the end of the day, I love science.
I consume a ton.
I produce almost none.
But I'm really interested in how do we apply it.
So tip of the hat again to people like Josh.