19 Populism and embracing complexity. Creating less certainty more questioning | a secular dharma
Channel: a secular dharma?
Date: 2020-11-14

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Recorded a day or so after the results of the US election the discussion is around populism and embracing complexity.  How identity can form around an exoskeleton influenced by external ideas and groups and how this can provide certainty, belonging and group identity. 

Dharma encourages looking internally resulting in less certainty, less of a fixed identity and more questioning. 

Power and the relationship with certainty in identity and belief.  With group identity comes acceptance and desire for leadership reflecting the core values of the belief.