“Politics has ceased to be a competition of ideas, and has transformed into a battle between rivalling visions for the world, which in a way threatens to damage beyond repair our basic everyday relationships as humans.”
In this video Lyubomir Stefanov, Assistant Professor at the New Bulgarian University, explores the effects of political polarisation on society.
Out of ease of expression and the desire to depict those we vehemently disagree with in the worst possible terms, people have invented the concept of “the political enemy”. This concept has recently moved beyond simple linguistic convenience, and has become an epithet to describe the inherent personal characteristics of those whose views we find totally incompatible with our own.
