Belief Out Of the Closet: To Believe or Not to Believe in the 21st Century?
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Hester Oberman |
TEDxUofA
• February 2018
We are not wise sapiens, but Homo Anxious.
We need purpose to direct our lives. When we are scared, we regress to a more primitive part of the brain the amygdala where we construct bifurcated narratives of ‘us versus them.’ This feeds a polarization and dehumanization by othering the other; and ‘we’ always are the heroes.
Ideas are beliefs, abstract imagined realities. Ideas we believe in hold power, value, and the impetus to share with others. We all believe in some big abstract idea like money, science, or God. There is no such thing as a nonbeliever. What is your idea you believe is worth spreading?