Metacrisis Salon 8 - Polarization
Polarization isn’t just something happening between people. It’s something happening through us — through media systems, incentive structures, moral narratives, and unprocessed fear. It narrows perception, rewards certainty, and makes coordination feel impossible just when we need it most.
This salon explores polarization not as a debate to be won, but as a signal — a warning light pointing to deeper breakdowns in sensemaking, trust, and relational capacity.
We’ll be joined by:
Emily Graham from Braver Angels — an organization working at the front lines of depolarization by rebuilding the human capacities required to stay in relationship across difference, without demanding agreement.
Shia Levitt, Director of News Ambassadors — a journalist who has reported for NPR, Marketplace and outlets across the US, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Through collaborative, cross-location reporting, her work explores how media structures shape polarization — and how narrative design can help complicate and humanize difference.
Together, we’ll explore frameworks and participate in facilitated dialogue designed to help us notice how polarization operates in real time — and experiment with different ways of orienting to disagreement.
This is not about consensus.
It’s about restoring the conditions that make coordination possible at all.
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