{"id":89555,"date":"2019-04-16T06:43:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T13:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/todays-biggest-threat-the-polarized-mind"},"modified":"2019-04-17T00:26:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T07:26:43","slug":"todays-biggest-threat-the-polarized-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/todays-biggest-threat-the-polarized-mind","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Biggest Threat: the Polarized Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/todays-biggest-threat-the-polarized-mind2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the bitter strife between left and right, citizen and noncitizen, white and non-white attest, the greatest threat to humanity today goes beyond political and religious divides, economics, and psychiatric diagnoses. It goes beyond cultural conflicts and even the degradation of the environment\u2014and yet it includes all of these.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>To counter it, we call for a mobilization of mindfulness practices and dialogue groups on the scale of a public works program for human civility.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/todays-biggest-threat-the-polarized-mind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/todays-biggest-threat-the-polarized-mind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/todays-biggest-threat-the-polarized-mind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/todays-biggest-threat-the-polarized-mind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the bitter strife between left and right, citizen and noncitizen, white and non-white attest, the greatest threat to humanity today goes beyond political and religious divides, economics, and psychiatric diagnoses. It goes beyond cultural conflicts and even the degradation of the environment\u2014and yet it includes all of these. To counter it, we call for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89597,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89555\/revisions\/89597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}