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By guest writer Patrice Johnson
Profound Anxiety and Fear: How The Rapid Pace of Change and News Information Worldwide Has Outstripped Humans’ Capacity to Process Them
“The U.S. needs more conflict, not less,” says journalist and author Amanda Ripley in an On Being interview with Krista Tippett. “We need turbulent city council meetings and clashes in guidance counselor offices,” she advises, because “living without conflict is like living without love…There is no shorter path to transformation.” But conflict falls into two buckets: good conflict versus diabolical high conflict.
Ripley, a trained conflict mediator, warns that Americans and others around the world are trapped, at a deep level, in a pattern of distress known as high conflict. The dark side of high conflict is that people lose their peripheral vision. High conflict collapses complexity of thought and the fullness of reality. “It sweeps everything into its vortex.” People in high conflict become stuck in perpetual cycles of blame, and “they make huge mistakes.”
In her brilliant essay titled “Complicating the Narratives,” Ripley describes herself as a recovering journalist. She confesses a professional existential crisis.
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