#1: Sun. Feb. 28, 3 – 5 p.m. EST
#2: Sun. Apr. 18, 3 – 5 p.m. EDT
Help solve one of our nation’s biggest underlying problems—participate in The Civility Game trial. Led by Saul Perlmutter, Bonnie Bottoms, Steven Clark, Wilson Carroll, and Ruth Milkman. Learn more about The Civility Game. Contact: Ruth@HR1981.com
If you want to play along, register now.
About The Civility Game
At our last in-person reunion, a number of us classmates sat down to think about the then-visible problem that our society has split into at least two major groups that have a very difficult time discussing any societal issue productively enough to coherently develop solutions together. This fissure within our society is perhaps the most dangerous challenge of our times, underlying all of the other serious concerns, since it undercuts all attempts to solve any problem. In the years since the reunion we have zoom-met intermittently, but continuously, to discuss and develop approaches to this problem (and others), and most recently a subgroup has been exploring a “game” concept that we would like to introduce to our classmates.
The game starts with simple curiosity: how is it possible that such a huge fraction of the population, almost necessarily of comparable intelligence and comparable ethical stature, are convinced of political positions that appear to me clearly wrong? It would be fascinating if I could just talk to somebody who has that same question about my positions, just to understand what’s going on. The goal of the game then is to find out the answer to this simple question. Note that the goals is not to convince anybody else of anything, but just to find out what would I need to believe about the world or about my priorities to share the other person’s conclusions.