At this week’s Round Table, Inica, Jack, Kenisha, and Madeline spoke with Seth Radwell, author of the recently released American Schism: How the Two Enlightenments Hold the Secret to Healing our Nation. Seth is an internationally known business executive and leader in consumer marketing--who left it all to start a bottom up movement to, in his own words, “fight unreason with reason”. Seth helped us understand what the American Schism is and where it comes from through his investigative retracing of the roots of division, which is vital to understanding where we are today, how we got here, and what we have to do to heal our seemingly unbridgeable divisions. Indeed, rifts aren’t uncommon in our history--our founders themselves had very different views of what the world should be; what’s different today is the level of rancor and the dismissal of objective truth. Seth traces two long standing orientations, moderate and radical--and the tensions between them--through six different periods up through today in order to distill core questions necessary to save democracy. Seth reminds us that democracy is a hard system of government. It requires an educated populace and educated points of views. If we reject objective truth, it can’t be sustained. We so appreciate listeners like you who are committed to truth, justice, and democracy. Thank you for listening!
