Some thoughts on why we're so polarized and incapable of constructive dialogue... Human experience comes down to two things: problem solving and storytelling. Problem solving is the cybernetic process of communication and control in the pursuit of goals. Storytelling is the sense-making of our experience as problem solvers through goal-directed behavior. Cybernetics is the idea that in the pursuit of some goal (docking a boat) we have to constantly adapt to our environment (wind, rain, t...