By: Charles Edson

Charles Edson — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 17:49:23 +0000

Hello Braver Angels Publishing: I am working to complete a manuscript that appears to fit your call to address introspection, self-understanding, tolerance, and work to resolve our problems. I may not fit your expectations as it is very broad or inclusive, covering human nature/ evolution/ biology/ neuroscience; civilization and our history of continuing chaos including Graeber and Wengrow’s thoughts (The Dawn of Everything); a lot of psychological information including cognitive-emotional-behavioral social theory, cognitive dissonance, attribution error, defense mechanisms, confirmation, etc; our resistance to uncertainty (ambiguity), need and search for explanation, reliance on vision discrimination, categorization, and imagination to find closure, and more; considering human diversity from many psychological, temperament, early development experiences, moral (political)fundamentals (Haidt), and a number of other traits, all absent of racial, cultural, sexual preference/identifty, or political orientation. I do, however, address different underlying characteristics that I believe are biologically inclined toward more conservative vs. more liberal perspectives or worldviews. However, I consider these differences as adaptive, and important to consider for our interests in survival. We need to first understand one another, respect one another, dialogue constructively and insist on reaching consensus to resolve our problems. Which are looming ever greater as we create a more and more incomprehensibly complex world. I am becoming a Braver Angel and see it as likely our best approach to begin to reunite us, and perhaps apply world-wide. (Yes, I’m an idealist who insists on finding and maintaining an optimistic outlook through hard work. Thank you for your consideration. I intend to keep this effort to 100 pages or less. Chuck Edson.

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By: Charles Edson