PDF Fractured: How We Learn to Live Together

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Fractured
How
We
Learn
to
Live
Together
Description
An urgent manifesto for collective healing David
Lammy MPThis landmark book tackles a deceptively
simple idea the more we spend time with people
unlike ourselves doing things together the more
understanding tolerant and even friendly we
becomeCombining fresh
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analysis with a wealth of fascinating examples
Jon Yates demonstrates the ways in which our
societies have become disconnected so that most
of us spend less and less time with people who
are differentas defined by age race or class
earning power or educationBy answering a series
of surprising questions Yates reveals a set of
truths that will change the way you think about
yourself and those around you What unites the
England football team the iPod and Singapore How
did a city that funded its schools the least
become the best place to grow up poor How did
Silicon Valley come from nowhere to dominate the
tech industry How did a village of
ItalianAmericans become incredibly healthy while
smoking cigars drinking red wine and never
exercising And why is talking to our friends
about politics the worst thing we can do for our
democracyFractured is ultimately an optimistic
book showing convincingly how great people are
when theyre united in diversity It argues that
the pandemic has created an unprecedented
opportunity for us to come together So we must
forge a new Common Lifea set of shared practises
and institutionsthat can strengthen the glue that
bonds our societies in all their diversityFor the
health of our democracy our society and our
economy the time to act is now