"I believe that unproductive disagreement is currently the greatest existential threat to our civilization and future prosperity. If we can’t even get to the point of talking productively about our problems, it’s only a matter of time until they bring us down. It’s similar to the way we think about dying of old age. **Most of the time, when we say that a person has died of old age, it’s not from some new disease that preys solely on old people but the inability of an aged body to properly face and recover from everyday problems. If our culture has chronic unproductive disagreement syndrome, we won’t die from some brand-new threat that is way more dangerous than everything else we’ve ever encountered—we’ll die from some unlucky confluence of regular problems that slowly chipped away at the foundations of civilization until the whole system collapses and we’re unable to get back up.**" (~[Location 2840](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B081J97HLQ&location=2840)~) -- [[202308170954 — AtN — Productive disagreement can be a superpower]] *** **Tags** — [[quotes]], [[juicy-sentences]], [[leadership]], **Source** — [[202308170952 — B — Why Are We Yelling]]