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Sep 19·edited Sep 19Liked by Stephanie Lepp

If the populace is under systematic injustices for a long while, their literal epigenetic expression changes and they either become "docile" or "hyper charged" on different narratives, which is exploited by the prevailing systems.

How would the thesis, anti thesis and synthesis approach be tailored according to above mentioned circumstances? How do we cut through all that genetic and psychological baggage to find some real common ground?

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You're pointing to the problem of our information ecosystem. How can people be receptive to synthesis when they're locked in outrage-fueled echo chambers?! Not everyone can. I'm operating at the cultural level, but *absolutely* we must also create the informational ecosystem conducive to learning, common ground, and evolution.....

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Makes me wonder about the bi directional, osmosis between the information and cultural levels.

I guess I'll procrastinate and enjoy my Sunday 😅

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Alliteration is clearly a mark of literary merit, Promiscuous Pragmatic Pluralist. We share so many tantalizingly theatrical thoughts in common! I just published a piece on this very subject today. "Medicine GOOD?! Medicine BAD?! No. Surviving a Captured 'Medical Industrial Complex,'" https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffthomasblack/p/medicine-good-medicine-bad-no-blindspots-drmartymakary?r=1sia9r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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"Medical Industrial Complex" 🔥🔥🔥

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