High Conflict
by Amanda Ripley · first published 2021
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…and take a sabbatical from your culture war, just to recharge and gain perspective. As long as we’re giving each other extra curricular activities I suggest you read this book: https://www.amazon.com/High-Conflict-Why-Get-Trapped/dp/1982... I promise you it’ll make you a happier less brooding person. As there doesn’t seem to be anything productive happening here, this my au revoir. I hope you find the internal…
on “Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices” ↗…to believe in conspiracy theories", you are making yourself MORE likely to fall into one. We are truly living in an age of narrative; it's not the first and it won't be the last. Book recommendation: High Conflict by Amanda Ripley
on “Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)” ↗…comes out (Printing press, Radio, Social Media) - our brains are not prepared for it, and the balance of power shifts like gravity has been temporarily cancelled. Book recommendation: Amanda Ripley "High Conflict"
on “The World Without a Mask (1934)” ↗Book Recommendation: High Conflict by Amanda Ripley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE_MEu7xn8Y https://www.amazon.com/dp/1982128569
on “Don't avoid workplace politics” ↗…series, plus a few of the Secret Projects. I quite liked Tress of the Emerald Sea. Also currently reading R. F. Kuang's Katabasis which I'm really enjoying so far. For nonfiction, I found Amanda Ripley's High Conflict to be excellent and insightful. I also finally got around to reading The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins; I expected it to be fine, but it far exceeded my expectations! On top of that, the edition I read…
on “Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?” ↗…that carries the most moral weight. The great tragedy is that we use the moral narrative that appeals to US, not to THEM or even to BYSTANDERS. See Jonathon Haidt - Righteous Mind And Amanda Ripley - High Conflict --- I think the greatest qualities of humanity are curiosity, humility, patience and empathy. To me, nonviolence is not about naivety or tolerance of evil or being unprepared, it's about maintaining…
on “Complex dynamics require complex solutions” ↗I recently got the book "High Conflict" - it goes into this question in some detail.
on “A far-right extremist allegedly plotted to blow up Amazon data centers” ↗…(generally identified as a politically-right problem) 2. The 0-strikes political climate we now (believe we) live in (generally identified as a politically-left problem) (Both feel like symptoms of High Conflict: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/55711592-high-conflic...) I think these are actually the same problem: they are both about convincing yourself that "others" are "bad" and "we" are good, and looking…
on “Chatham House Rule is suddenly everywhere in the Bay Area” ↗