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Understanding Conservatism
In the hopes of producing a documentary from my cross-country motorcycle trip, I am asking my couchsurfing hosts about the importance of understanding people. These days, in the Age of Outrage, it is common and acceptable to point fingers and blame other people for their ignorance, fueling our feelings of being upset and hopeless but not fully engaging our capacity to learn and understand. I think it’s more important to understand people than it is to merely judge them and dismiss their humanity, as is so prevalent today.
Most if not all of my couchsurfing hosts lean more liberally. It’s not always something that’s discussed…