Psychology in Seattle.

Hey deserve any listeners today we have a special guest on the podcast, Howard Ross. He wrote an interesting book recently and I would just

like him to introduce himself and explain his book and the premise of it Howard go

for it. Howard go for it. Hi Kirk how are you?

Yes the book is called Our Search for Belonging

how our need to connect is tearing us apart and it was really Kirk

inspired by a sense of polarization that I had been feeling and I know everybody

else has been feeling over the last couple of years as we've seen our political system pulled farther

and farther apart and that's affected our social system and one of the things

that I became curious about and my support person, John Robert Tartaglion, who helped a lot

with the book as well,

is why it is that we tend to rivalize the way we do

and what we can do about it.

It's been something I've been given a lot of thought to you recently

because, I don't know, I'm old enough to remember people saying

a lot of things around political divisions over the last number of decades and and

when you actually look into the research, they actually do find that there is a, and they look at it from a number of different ways, either the politicians in Congress or the voters obviously there are ways of measuring this which I won't go into and partly because I don't really remember the methods but but is they found that, you know, now as a

a bit compared to say 20, 30 years ago, there is a ever widening gap between

Democrats and Republicans in our society,

conservative liberals.

And there's been a lot of speculation, obviously,

about that it's related to the internet

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