Overcoming Political and Media Manipulation Together with Bill Shireman
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Episode Eight: “Overcoming Political and Media Manipulation Together” with Bill Shireman
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Do you feel like people on the other end of the political spectrum to you are extremists? There’s a reason for that. Bill Shireman tells us how the media and politicians play us off against each other for their own benefit. Polar opposites can agree with each other, and Bill explains the process for creating consensus.
Bill doesn’t shy away from the tricky topics, and he tells us how pro-life and pro-choice supporters are far more similar than we’ve been led to believe. He talks about corruption throughout our system and how we all need to work as one to make it better. After all, we’re all in this together. If you’re a problem solver, this episode is for you.
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Highlights in this episode:
Bill tells us about the importance of the 5% that will switch their political party to choose politicians that will solve problems
Discover how polar opposites can come together to agree on how to address an issue.
Learn how the media intensely manipulates how we see each other.
Rediscover the environmental wisdom of indigenous cultures.
Find out how pro-life and pro-choice people aren’t as divided as they think.
Uncover how our political system has been gamed to keep us divide
Duncan and Bill talk about the power of deliberative democracy.
If you’re a problem solver, Bill has great advice for you.
The marketplace has now virtually eliminated coal from the market here in the United States. Not in China, not in India, not in much of the rest of the world, but in the United States, we've already accomplished what the Clean Power Plan set out to accomplish.
We don't even really need to go through this rigamarole, but somehow the Supreme Court has decided to take these classic cases that speak to the base of the Republican Party and to make examples of them. And I'm not sure that that shows judicial restraint at all.
About this week’s guest:
Bill Shireman is the founder of Future 500 and co-founder of In This Together. As a Republican and environmental activist, Bill may be considered a walking contradiction by some. However, he believes the left and right can learn from each other to break down our us-versus-them political culture.
Bill has authored several books, including Innovation Nation, Engaging Outraged Stakeholders, What We Learned In The Rainforest – Business Lessons from Nature, co-written with former Mitsubishi CEO Tachi Kiuchi, and In This Together, co-authored with Trammell S. Crow, founder of EarthX.
Connect with Bill:
Email: hello@inthistogetheramerica.org, bshireman@future500.org
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If you enjoyed this episode, check out my interview with Bill Shireman on Fractal Friends.
What’s coming next?
Stay tuned for next week’s episode with Carter Phipps from the Institute for Cultural Evolution.
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