The Essential Conversations, oil on wood:
Between the breakdown of society and ignorance of the problems we face, resides a space call conversation, where truths are exchanged. It’s not a space for misidentification, exaggeration, attention grabbing, and simplification. Only through honest and in-depth identification of the problems can problems be solved. We are equipped with the knowledge, the resources, reasoning ability, and the mindfulness to hold back judging quickly or to follow the trends, the mass, and our genetic tendency for tribalism. It’s essential that the lines of communications for intellectual dialogues are open, democratic, and free of societal fear and condemnation. Only through successful open conversations can society transcend to a unifying understanding of the problems we face and the solutions we crave. It is through attention to evidences, confronting our bias and ego, and setting aside our politics and religious beliefs, that ideas and reasons can flourish to bring us to a better place for humanity.
Portrait of Coleman Hughes: a writer, columnist, musician, and the host of the podcast Conversations with Coleman.
