How could you possibly believe that?

Now, whether you've said those words out loud or simply thought them in your mind, we've all been there,

struggling to get on the same ideological page or maybe even the same planet as someone with a vastly different worldview.

Disagreements are nothing new, but sadly in today's world, sharing a dissenting opinion may result in online hate or falling victim to cancel culture.

So how do we de-escalate this kind of situation and have productive conversations with our differing opinions?

We'll talk about that with Sean McDowell.

Disagreements have always been part of our culture, in our families, at our schools, and even in our politics and government.

But it seems like we've reached a level of intensity now where we can't

even talk to each other. If I want to maintain a friendship or a family relation, I can't even

talk about politics. And there's about a hundred things that we can't seem to have a disagreement on

and still be friends. How did we get here?

That's a great question. We've heard some terms used for this like cancel culture. So the moment

that term popped up, I started doing some research trying to figure out why are we so polarized,

like you said? Like there's not only disagreements, but there's contempt across the

religious aisle. There's contempt across the political aisle. And I think a few things are gone on

here. Number one, obviously, the elephant in the room is social media. Right. Now we have means to

communicate to the world instantly without filtering it and retweet anything

anybody else says.

There used to not be such access to the world.

And the algorithms favor things that incite emotions such as anger more than happiness. So that creates the sense of feeling.

I think another issues at place, we just have so many issues in which we're more divided than ever,

whether it's issues like vaccines, whether it's race, whether it's transgender. There's all these

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