Libservative

10:10 - Moral Perception and Where Liberals & Conservatives Disconnect.

More often than we realize, we want the same things, but frame the moral perception of the issue in a way that turns the other side off.

13:00 - Acceptable Diversity vs Unacceptable Diversity

"Let's include everyone...unless they think like 'the people over there'".

14:49 - "The Social Purity Test" Explained

The grass-roots activists that are actually on the ground, tend to be far more pragmatic in their approach to change. While the "political hobbyists" are very tribal and loud, with much less of an idea of what is actually occurring in the real world. The less you engage, the more you tend to push the liberal or conservative purity test.

17:05 - Is the Social / Digital Civil War Phony?

Research shows that folks do not like social and political conflict. This means the conversations are not being had in reality. Instead, they are relegated to out-of-context bickering over text platforms like social media. Americans in general, may just not be very emotionally intelligent. Anger is okay, but we need channel it a much better way when it comes to our political and social concerns. Better mental health could be the answer.

21:20 - Mental Health and How We Communicate

Understanding our emotions would greatly help with our political warfare. This needs to take place during childhood to better prepare our youth for adulthood and the disagreements and emotional diversity that they will face. 

24:00 - Giving Our Youth Less Structure & More Responsibility 

Let's start having our young people communicate and work together at a much younger age in order to serve themselves and the community. Could giving children more "Free Play" lead to a healthier democracy? Forcing children to work together at a young age could teach healthy democracy at a much younger age.

26:15 - Understanding Radical Thinkers, Fringe Groups, and Yes...Even Neo Nazis

Treating people like humans (even "the worst of the worst") is the best way to fight their ideas and change their minds. It should be common sense...but it isn't alway.

30:20 - Using Positive Psychology to Heal Political Psychology

Social and behavioral synchrony. Getting people on the same wave length on something builds camaraderie, warm feelings, etc. There can be a spill over into political views if you start right here. Shared experience and joy goes a long way. 

32:30 - We Are Loading Terms and Destroying Language

Simply reframing a liberal argument with different language can and will get more conservatives on board...and visa versa. Even liberals can have issues understanding their own frameworks due to the language used. If you can reframe your dogma to achieve a goal...thats what needs to be done.

38:00 - Identity

Could a form of "National Identity" heal our discourse? Maybe, but how do we get there when there is "so much inequality". We need to start by acknowledging the validity of the concerns of those we disagree with.

42:20 - Objectivity and Facts

"Facts" may not matter as much as we may think. As we get smarter, we get better at weaponizing true information to fit a narrative.

45:35 - Dopamine 

What is it really doing vs what we are lead to believe it's doing?

Mentioned Works:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/dylan-selterman-phd

"Free To Learn"- by Dr. Peter Gray

"The All Or Nothing Marriage" - by Eli J. Finkel

"Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World" - by Michelle J. Gelfand

CC Music:
"Confused" by Makaih Beats
"Upper Levels" by Ketsa

01:00 - Feedback Loops, Values, and Over Simplification.

Delegitimizing "The Other's" values in 240 characters...Does doing so make your values more legitimate? How real is the issue of this "war"? Would you delegitimize another's concerns and values if you conversed in the open air? The inability to convey or perceive emotions (other than anger) online. Is online discourse the new "Road Rage"? It's amazing what "anonymity" will allow a person to do. Being PERFECTLY centrist is virtually impossible.

12:00 - The 10-80-10 Rule and the Squeaky Wheel Getting the Grease

Trying to win an unnecessary, un-winnable argument vs trying to solve the actual problem at hand.

16:40 - What Do You Get When You Raise A Logical Argument On Social Media vs A Logical Argument With Great Thinkers In Reality?

Deflection. Deflection. Deflection. That's what you'll get on social media. The "Yea, But......is worse." Well balanced, nuanced debate and compromise is what you'll get in the real world. You may even make a few new friends outside of your monotonous echo chamber. 

18:30 - "Catastrophizing" 

How long does it take to build a skyscraper? Now, how long does it take to tear it down? Legacy media makes a lot more money and gains a lot more viewers and readers by tearing things down than they do by building things up.  If you're not afraid...you're living life wrong!

22:00 - Social Media...The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

The Good: Awareness and conversation of global, national, and local issues. A bunch of internet goofballs get Gary a new Liver. The Bad: Polarization. Differing opinions make everyone a brainwashed, bad person. The Ugly: Misinformation, disinformation, and CENSORSHIP. More information is not always good information. "Smartest-Man-In-the-Room Syndrome". "The smartest 1% of all people are still missing 99% of all knowledge" - Michael Malice.  This means that diversification of ideas is still just as important as it was 200 years ago. 

34:20 - Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy has become a meaningless word when it comes to political discourse. Everyone is hypocrite...So no-one is a hypocrite. Growth is often seen as hypocrisy when the growth doesn't fit the narrative. 

41:50 - "Mis" and "Dis"

If something on social media checks all of your "agreement boxes" or completely pisses you off for every reason...it's probably (mostly) bullshit. We spend too much time chasing and fighting shadows. 

48:10 - It Could Get Worse, But It Just Doesn't Have To

CC Music: "Confused" by Makaih Beats

Dan and Corey open by discussing how they met. It had to do with family, beer, and BBQ. And it was all thanks to Jesus (But not in the way you think).

2:20 - "We're Tired of the Bullshit." 

The tit-for-tat moral equivalence is exhausting. It's time for the "silent middle" to make themselves heard. We're the biggest, quietest, and most underrepresented group in the country. Free-thinking, moderate Millennials take the biggest brunt as they find themselves stuck in a generational war between "Boomers" and "Get Z". Being "in the middle" is the biggest sin right now.

8:00- "The Recalibration of America's Moral Compass."

Millennials are on the verge of taking the baton. How do we want to be remembered? Do we want to be another generation that refuses to embrace change? Do we want to be the generation that accepts all change just for change's sake? Probably neither. 

10:00 "Being Wrong Is A Good Thing"

Get ready to be upset sometimes. If you are going to assume that all Trump voters are racist, inbred, idiots...OR...you're going to assume that "Liberal" is just another word for "Transgendered Communist"...You're probably wrong. And that's okay. And it may just be because you're just too busy to use your critical thinking skills. So you pick up your opinion for the local convenience store that is Legacy and Social Media. 

15:00 "Let's Build A Community of Free Thinkers"

Opinions are rarely evil or felt with malice when they are well thought out and analyzed internally. And then expressed in a rational and nuanced form. They are not meant to be force fed to others with the expectation that they will comply. "Intellectual" is NOT a dirty word! Meaningful words are not meaningful anymore. Reality is not a game to be won. Political balance....is okay. 

19:50 "Make Thinking Sexy Again"

"Us vs Them" requires almost zero thought. Good faith conversations are how we make it through. Walking away from a difficult conversation with questions is how they should end...every time. Modifying and changing your opinion is GROWTH. We lose our prejudices and biases with experience and growth. Should we be defined by them? 

34:30 "Social Justice, Allies, and Ego"

42:25 Previewing Season 1 - "Understanding America's Social Civil War (Real or Window Dressing)"

*Music Presented Under Creative Commons: "Confused" by Makaih Beats