S02E05 – Can WE Fix Politics & Beyond? (A Summary of The Beyond Politics Series)

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

Buckminster Fuller

Today’s episode is the fourth one in The Beyond Politics Video Series on The Unlearning Playground by Chetan Narang & Rocco Jarman. Well, last in the first iteration (we hope!). This is my first standalone video in this series, and what I talk about is a summary of the entire series, key takeaways everyone can have from it and practical advices for everyone listening to actually make an impact in our society & in our shared future together.

When Rocco & I brainstormed the idea of Beyond Politics, we could see that in the current situation of the global political atmosphere, in the USA or in India or in various other societies throughout the world, polarisation is increasingly becoming the norm. The ideological divide among people is deepening and this growing rift is not only impacting political discourse but also hindering our ability to address pressing societal issues effectively – issues for which even if we already have the necessary tools already, our political framings block us from cooperating and actually solving them.

The key insights I share today (and what we discuss in the entire Beyond Politics Series) are applicable not just to the political climate in India or the United States of America, but is fundamental to the way we humans work and coordinate (or at least try to coordinate!)

Beyond Politics, a four-part video series on The Unlearning Playground by Chetan Narang & Rocco Jarman, with conversations around how to bring about some real change in Political Ideologies that Modern Democracy truly needs

00:00Coming-Up Next
00:33A brief summary of Beyond Politics by Chetan Narang & Rocco Jarman
05:06A Personal Story (Polarisation in Our Everyday Life)
09:24Our Fears are the same (Recent Trends in Modern Politics)
11:40IF you want to be a part of the solution
17:09The Cone Example and Politics Today
20:37Key Point 1 – The Two Golden Rules
26:07Key Point 2 – Two Questions to Always Consider
27:50Key Point 3 – The Tim Urban Levels of Thinking Paradigm
29:37Key Point 4 – The Human Consciousness Pyramid
34:46Understanding the Current Human Condition & What lies AHEAD
37:47How to use Agile to Solve Politics
42:44Concluding Thoughts & Invitations

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