I recently spoke at a TedX conference on Peace in the beautiful village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia. Pugwash and peace have a historic connection: the Nobel Prize-winning Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs were founded in 1957 by the philosopher Bertrand Russell and the nuclear physicist Joseph Rotblat.
On the stage at Peace Hall, I talked about why it seems impossible to find common ground these days: often, there is no common ground, because there isn’t even a common worldview. If it feels as if people live in different realities, it’s because they do. Hence my title, “The War of the Worldviews.”
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