In this episode, I share a conversation with my friend, Andrei, a Russian immigrant who studied political science at the University of Toronto.

Andrei and I have connected over the past few years on a number of shared concerns, including the erosion of social norms and institutions in our societies, as well as the breakdown in so many people's ability to establish common ground in communicating with one another, particularly those they disagree with, and the dangers these issues pose to all of us and our democracy.

Follow Andrei on IG @archangelski_!

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Topics covered/touched upon in this episode:

• The story of how Andrei was let go from 2 volunteer roles coaching entrepreneurs because a stranger didn't like a comment he made on Instagram, and proceeded to hunt him down to get him fired

• An article Andrei wrote after the murder of George Floyd about the statistics of police killings in America (which sealed his fate in the aforementioned witchhunt)

• Sam Harris' June 2020 podcast episode, Can We Pull Back From the Brink?, deep-diving into the same stats

• Another article Andrei wrote about the destructive impacts of identity politics and cancel culture on society

• What it means to be a citizen, and how we don't want Canada to become like Russia, where people are persecuted for thought crimes

• The complexity of the world, and how contradictory views can be simultaneously true

• Systems-level changes and the goal of creating a healthy society

• The difficulty of not getting emotionally hijacked

• The Matrix/being born into economic servitude

• Working on changing yourself first/working to become the best version of ourselves

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Other things mentioned/to check out:

• Negativity bias and the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 errors

• Triggernometry with Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster

• Evolutionary/behavioural psychologist and professor, Dr. Gad Saad

• Pulitizer Prize-winning journalist and author, Chris Hedges, on the collapse of Western society

• The Sandwich Method for providing feedback

• The Munk Debates, and Dialogues series, and Podcast

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UH's theme music was composed by Akira The Don. He's amazing...check out his MEANINGWAVE UNIVERSE!

Lyrics and co-production by, yours truly, Max Draxby.

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