Today
we live in a highly polarized “Us vs.
Them” nation in which members strengthen their feeling of “in-group” belonging by increasing their distance
from and tension with their “out-group”
competitors — “the Others!” Endless attempts at fact-checking,
while valuable, causes group members to go into defense mode instead of change.
Scientists now know that “belonging is stronger than facts.”1 I want to highlight some key
points from the MIT Technology Review
article I quoted from above:
● Members of opposing groups are strengthening
their feeling of “in-group” belonging by increasing their distance between
members of the groups.
● Members of opposing groups are strengthening
their feeling of “in-group” belonging by increasing tension between the
members of the groups.
● Members value belonging is valued above scientific
facts.
In
order to change things we must create different ways of belonging. Trying to
change things by yelling and screaming facts weaponized memes doesn’t create
peace. It increases anger, hatred and violence. We must create new ways to strengthen belonging
that are inclusive, mutually beneficial and that acknowledge the validity of scientific
facts. The
members of the founding generation of Americans left us some valuable treasures
to undertake this challenge.
1. Their biblical
heritages. The Scriptures that were
the source of the most powerful memes
in America’s founding documents.
2. The stories of
their individual and collective efforts to successfully complete the process of
democratic conversations and writing that were required to produce the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America.
3. The stories
of the human predators that used religions, governments and corporations that
lured some people to, while forcing others to come and colonize the American continents.
We
have three things members of the founding generation did not have -- and could never have imagined in their
wildest dreams:
1. 242 years of documented
history of how their dream of democracy has actually worked.
2. Access to 21st
century scientific knowledge about what humans are, how they think and how they
organize into collectives.
3. Access to 21st
century computing power and mass communication technologies that empower
individuals and give them a global voice no generation has ever had in the
history of mankind.
The
Biblical Heritage Center and TOV Center have partnered together to engage
in the opportunities above to create those new and more inclusive ways of
belonging. We hope that you will become part of the story of the generation
that upgraded American democracy and spiritual traditions to the next level!
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1
MIT Technology Review September/October
2018; Technology is threatening
our democracy. How do we save it?; p. 15.
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