Shane Parrish

What's different about today?

Why is everybody on such a hair trigger?

Why do we identify so strongly with extremes?

Or they're not guilty at all.

Somebody just made up an accusation and the accusation became the framing and the framing became the narrative.

But we've gotten to this point, you know, to varying degrees in varying different countries where, you know, we don't tolerate people who have different ideas than us.

And we saw this last week play out in the U.S.

with the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

I mean, I'd heard the name and I knew he... We see the same thing in Canada with sort of our politics, right?

I imagine you see in the US too, where media is definitely intolerable of one position and more favorable of the other.

And

You can analyze this.

You can study it.

You could do a PhD on this.

It exists.

And it seems like we're just not capable of having to think for ourselves.

And we're not capable of having reasoned discussion of things and being friends with people.

It used to be back in the 30s, the 40s, the Churchill era, both sides of the house would talk to each other.

They would have dinner together.

They would find common ground.