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They're all down into the middle of the British and

And we're cool, we're up in the middle of the British and bad.

Yeah, we're cool, we're up by the bed. They went quiet. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.

Episode 133. Oh, A few months ago in episode one twenty two we welcomed government and

politics professor Lilliana Mason on the show to help us make sense of tribal psychology. In that show

we discussed how tribalism is a basic human drive and how it takes very little to

encourage us to think in terms of us versus them.

Those tribal tendencies can scramble public discourse and derail many of our best efforts at progress

from science communication to elections to our ability

to converge on the truth and go about the grind of building a better democracy.

In short, we established that humans value being good members of their tribes much more than they value being correct, so much so that we will choose to be wrong if it keeps us in good standing with our peers. In this episode we

welcome Lillian and Mason back on the program because her new book on this topic

just hit the shelves and in it she goes into great depth discussing a central idea.

Our conflicts are over who we think we are rather than reasoned differences of opinion.

The book is Uncivil Agreement,

how politics became our identity,

and personally I feel like this is just about the most important thing

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