Uploaded April 2019 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago
Why is our politics locked in intractable polarisations, and what can we do about it? Robert M. Ellis suggests ways that our practice can prevent polarisation. He introduces Jonathan Haidt's analysis of 6 political values, then explains how absolutizing those values (treating them as the whole story) leaves us in deadlock, though provisional uses of them can be integrated and allow agreement. He also outlines the process of re-framing by which we can move from an absolute interpretation of our political values to a provisional one.
Why is our politics locked in intractable polarisations, and what can we do about it? Robert M. Ellis suggests ways that our practice can prevent polarisation. He introduces Jonathan Haidt's analysis of 6 political values, then explains how absolutizing those values (treating them as the whole story) leaves us in deadlock, though provisional uses of them can be integrated and allow agreement. He also outlines the process of re-framing by which we can move from an absolute interpretation of our political values to a provisional one.
