18: Empathy in the digital public sphere

We've become servants to the news cycle and are separated by chasms of partisanship, but with empathy and a form of communicative rationality, we can progress as a better-informed society.

We live in an interesting moment in history. We have more direct access to global human knowledge at our fingertips than ever, but the channels through which we interface and develop our worldview have become privately owned entities with a separate set of investors and stakeholders. Information has become economy. Data has become profit. Ideas have bec…