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On the Media

Chaos Reigns

On the Media

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4.68.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

How can we move beyond polarization? Plus, one man’s dark obsession with organizing the natural world.

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0:00.0

Five days from now, we are going to win Florida.

0:03.3

Florida goes blue. It's over.

0:06.4

Yep, America may have slipped when it comes to other global competitions,

0:11.2

but when it comes to political division, we are fighting fit.

0:16.0

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

0:19.1

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

0:20.5

And I'm Bob Garfield. It's easy to sort

0:23.5

ourselves into political tribes because of the clear-cut differences between the two parties,

0:28.9

but... If there were to be a rift in one party, it would reduce polarization because people would

0:34.0

have a less clear sense of us and them. From sorting to taxonomy, David Starr Jordan thought he was ordering the world.

0:42.6

But really, he was only fostering more division.

0:46.1

There were eugenics fairs at small town festivals where there'd be competitions

0:50.8

and there'd be the best babies or the fittest families.

0:54.0

It was so gross. It was so gross.

0:56.0

It was so gross.

0:57.0

It's all coming up.

0:59.0

From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.

1:05.0

I'm Bob Garfield.

1:07.0

And I'm Brooke Gladstone, holding my breath with the rest of you. We can't turn four years of Donald Trump into an aberration,

1:14.7

but eight years he'll change the country in the way we can't tolerate.

1:18.8

Could you imagine if Sleepy Joe ever became president,

1:22.9

his country would be a mess?

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