We need to better understand the latent power within competition to divide and actively guard against sowing seeds of division within our society so that we can capture the potential power of competition without causing harm.
Social Norms
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Anger for social change
Anger can be a tool to motivate action so long as it is directed not at an individual but at the underlying social system that allows this injustice to take place.
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Questioning power dynamics
By refusing to accept the socially-accepted balance of power, we can begin to shift the balance of power away from institutions and pre-existing structures back towards the people.
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Question everything
For most of us, we were taught to accept truth without questioning it, because we did not have the authority to question it, even though a truth that has not been questioned, reasoned, and investigated is not a truth but an assumption.
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Stop following the rules
Our social, political, and economic rules were created by people who hold the power, and people who hold the power want things to stay the same so that they hold on to power.
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Meaningful debate
Modern debate teaches arrogance and inflexibility, which is about as conducive to gaining knowledge and understanding as covering one’s eyes is to learning to read. Meaningful debate is when two opposing sides commit to coming to a solution together.
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You might be offended
Ideas are offensive. And it is these offensive ideas that challenge us to change, that inspire us to improve. But we have an obligation to engage respectfully.
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Climate change debates
We will never be able to address climate change as a whole society until we humble ourselves enough to accept and discuss different perspectives and engage on the topic rather than shut down debate because of close-mindedness.
Absolute truths in perspective
Truth is a humbling thing. We should all of us seek to know the truth – that search is at the heart of all learning and inquiry – but it requires that we first acknowledge that we may not know the truth and that we may never know it.
The value of different perspectives
The only way that we as individuals can broaden our perspectives, minimize our blind spots, and better understand the world around us is by seeking to understand perspectives that are different from our own, rather than trying to win an argument.