Welcome to the Kamiyan podcast. My name is Jeff Krasno.

Humans are often apt to jump to conclusions and develop knee-jerk opinions based on our cognitive biases.

But reality is always infinitely more complex and nuanced.

In this shortcast, author Diego Perez, aka Young Pueblo, invites us to dig deeper and

explore other perspectives in order to find middle pathways between contradictory opinions and polar extremes.

A shortcasts are 10 to 15 minute versions of longer commune podcasts created in collaboration with Blinkist.

You can find the full-length version of this episode linked in the show notes.

I hope you enjoy this condensed version of Young Pueblo's Insights. Be suspicious of persons that exhibit signs of infection,

report these individuals immediately to law enforcement.

We don't have to look around far to see that modern society gravitates towards binaries and polar extremes.

We see it, for example, with COVID and COVID deniers, with those who want vaccines and those who don't,

with those who cry Black Lives Matter and those who retaliate All Lives Matter.

We see it with pro-Trump and never Trump.

I mean, we can just keep going on and on.

One of the outcomes of that type of situation is that you're just swaying from like,

I really love this person to really hate them now, or this is my opinion, and that's my opinion.

And of course, our opinions are then reinforced by the echo chambers in which we live,

as we surround ourselves and engage more and more with people who think and behave in a similar

manner.

This is the same both offline and online, where, thanks to all of our machine learning

and algorithms, were always fed more of the same, of what we already like and follow.

And so we like and follow again.

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