Bridging Political Divides Among Young People with Manu Meel from BridgeUSA | Cylinder Radio Ep. 151

Описание: On this episode of Cylinder Radio, I speak with Manu Meel, the CEO of BridgeUSA, a youth-led non-profit organization that creates spaces on college and high school campuses for open-minded and non-judgemental conversations on political issues.

I think it’s a really important challenge to take on and BridgeUSA is doing an awesome job at tackling it so I wanted to have him on the podcast to learn more and share his work with my platform.

During our conversation, we talked about how BridgeUSA started, why Manu felt called to insert himself into the culture wars and why he thinks he was able to “resist” the temptation of going after material success and external rewards and pursue meaning instead.

We also discuss how to get young people to break out of their thought bubbles and if echo chambers are part of human nature or not. Lastly, we talk about what makes people actually take action to change something within our society and what you can do to start your own BridgeUSA chapter if you are at a high school or college in the US.

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BridgeUSA: https://www.bridgeusa.org/
Start Your Own Chapter: https://www.bridgeusa.org/start-a-cha...
Bridge USA Facebook:   / bridgeusa1  
BridgeUSA Instagram:   / bridgeusa_  

— TIMESTAMPS —

0:00 Intro
2:25 What is BridgeUSA?
4:52 What’s your take on provocative political pundants?
8:15 Why insert yourself in the culture wars?
14:45 How do choose meaning over material success?
19:30 How do you get people to break out of their thought bubble?
33:16 Are echo chambers just human nature?
38:03 What actually makes people take action?
40:51 Why has freedom of speech become “conservative”?
45:07 How to start a Bridge USA chapter?

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51:19 Outro


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