Disagreement Used to Cost You Something

Disagreement used to cost you something. Today, it costs nothing — and that’s the problem. The Berlin Wall is remembered for what it built. But what it really destroyed was the middle: the shared space where people could disagree, stay in the room, and finish the conversation. Today, an invisible wall made of algorithms, labels, and distrust has done the same thing. In this episode, generational futurist Ryan Vet explores what happened to the middle ground in American culture, why the “Invisi…