Andrew comes back after two months off to give a big picture view of why the polarization is getting worse and what we have to do to improve our dialogue.

Andrew discusses with Fabio Magrini the theory of civilization being born from trauma and what is plaguing the world today and preventing intelligent dialogue is a kind of social auto-immune disease.

Rebecca D. Armstrong and Andrew Shepherd discuss the evolution of the gender wars, the mythologies that frame our gender dynamics from the ancient goddess cultures of abundance to the rise of the horse warriors and the desert cultures removing goddesses from the divine alter in favor of male gods, to the Red Pill ideas of the modern Manosphere.

Andrew talks about Non-Violent Communication with expert Kevin Alexander.

Andrew does a solo episode explaining what has gone wrong with progressivism or as Ken Wilber calls it, "the mean green meme."

Julian Marc Walker, Rebecca Armstrong and Andrew discuss spiral dynamics and how this academic synthesis of the evolution of cultural mindsets helps us understand the problem of polarization in America today.

Andrew and Rebecca reflect on what useful ideas liberals bring to the table and how to incorporate those ideas in a more effective and measured way.

Andrew and Rebecca Armstrong discuss ideological blindspots of many ideologies, the mostly emotional basis of political thinking, tribal camps around Trump and January 6th, finite and infinite games, the problem with a mindset of control, culture is downstream of biology, the biological roots of liberal and conservative mindsets, Brett Weinstein's critique on society's self-destructive evolution.