Hello and welcome to another episode of the Mark Gross podcast. I've been thinking about the

subject of community and belonging and connection. I think we're always all thinking about

human connection, about our own

relationships and families and systems. And I really wonder about what it means to be in a community

that is safe, that has a space of psychological safety to have different views and different ways

of seeing the world. And I think given our current circumstances,

I honestly don't think that world really exists. To have differing opinions is to, you know,

it's so divisive now. It comes from a space of hate for the way someone else sees the world.

It's we've turned so many things political,

you know, that all of a sudden now you're on a right or a left wing based on a view that you

have. And if you identify as any sort of political view, then it's been sort of co-opted by

extremes. It's hard to have a safe conversation anymore. And, you know, been sort of co-opted by extremes.

It's hard to have a safe conversation anymore. And, you know, the sort of underlying definition of a healthy corporate culture is

psychological safety, safety to be oneself, safety to express.

You know, I have a lot of questions about what's going on right now where we are being taught that

other people are a weapon that they are unsafe to be around and i think there's been a lot of

misuse of information and a lot of over a lot of exaggeration of fear and the exploitation of fear. And that conversation

is really hard to have safely because I question are the choices we're making worse than what

we're trying to prevent? And I hope you're all questioning that. If you're not questioning that,

I'm like, are you awake?

Are you paying attention? Do you give a shit about the mental health of humanity about what we stand for?

That's the question. Why can't we question those things? Why can't we? And often the response is you don't care about human life.

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