It's more than disagreeing on facts. We seem to have graduated to disagreeing on values. How can people who have so much common history seem to be living on different planets? The clue may lie in how we determine values as much as we do facts.
Smart Girls
The morning paper - read on a tablet - has a headline "A new way of thinking" promoting a "growth mindset". (Globe and Mail, Report on Business) I'm amused at what are seen as radical new ideas by the author. She cites Carol Dweck's book, Mindset, the New Psychology of Success as the road to be travelled.. Dweck, a Stanford professor has excellent credentials, but I find it a tad depressing that anyone has to tell us of the perils of fixed mindset.