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E32: E32: Shaun Cammack on how narratives and storytelling shape how humans see the world
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Is it possible to ever see the world and its events free from your own personal distractions or biases? What is "political mindfulness" and how can we practice it in our day-to-day lives?
In this episode of "Right Now with Stephen Kent," Stephen sits down with Shaun Cammack of The Narratives Project to discuss how social media skews our political and personal preferences; how narratives work and how they are different from facts; and why it's important to try to understand things from other people's perspectives
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00:00 Episode Start
00:05 If news organizations were people
04:42 The mission of The Narratives Project
06:15 Applying mindfulness to news & politics
09:40 Are you ignorant or brainwashed?
12:00 How social media skews our choices
17:19 It all started with a tweet
19:52 We don’t need facts, per se, to form a narrative
22:55 What is a narrative anyway?
25:10 Falling into blue v red traps
29:54 The case for diversity at a local level
31:55 The immigration “crisis”
39:50 What to do with our narratives
40:45 Good news about rocks
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