Extreme partisan positions have become the norm in politics, attractive for their dramatic and over-simplistic aspects.
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Digital and mainstream media are acting as accelerators of polarization, affirming ever deeper cycles of misunderstanding and extreme rhetoric.
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Shielding children from mild risk-taking erodes their resilience into adulthood and contributes to polarization through intolerance to discomfort and the demand for further safetyism.
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High emotional states can easily be directed towards any single goal that relieves the anxiety, including simplified political solutions and conspiracies.
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An influx of migrants and immigrants into wealthier nations often creates and widens schisms between citizens of host countries.
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The cultures of people living in urban vs. rural areas have come to represent two different value systems that don’t sufficiently harmonize.
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When peoples’ basic needs are unmet, high emotional states, including anxiety, depression and aggression can set in, causing and exacerbating conflicts.
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Today, we live in a world in which left-brain thinking is the dominant mode. However, history shows that healthier, less polarized and more vibrant societies are otherwise.
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According to several historians, polarization is one of the major symptoms of civilizational decline. How and why is this so?
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Political polarization has no single cause. It arises from a combination of different factors and conditions.
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The striving for dominance, to be top dog, is a key hinge upon which our history turns—and mutual respect is its antidote.
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If Canadians and their leaders are to avoid further fragmentation, they need to move beyond deeply restricting notions of “left” and “right” in politics.
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