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Tuesday Aug 07, 2018
The Civil Thing
Tuesday Aug 07, 2018
Tuesday Aug 07, 2018
An address by the Minister, Rev. Rob MacPherson - recorded on Sunday, 29th July, 2018 in the Unitarian Meeting House in Adelaide. In this address, Rob laments the rise of incivility and outlines the reasons for it. He refers to the science of brain physiology and especially the primitive "flight or fight" part of the human brain - the amygdala which we share with the reptiles. This explains why we are often so slow to respond effectively to incivility - what Rob refers to as the "amygdala hijack". How do we stay cool in the midst of conflict? Where might we find models of dignity, lucidity, civility in an increasingly uncivil age? If incivility is the enslavement of the reptilian part of our brain - the amygdala - Is it possible - Rob asks - for each of us to control our propensity to incivility in the midst of conflict? He uses the example of Elin Errson, a courageous 21 year-old Swedish student protesting against the deportation of a young Afghani refugee, to show how this can be done. See the link at - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/25/swedish-student-plane-protest-stops-mans-deportation-afghanistan.
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