Yes, certainly. So I translated some works from Manuel Castells at the time. He specialized in network communication theory and analyzed many occupy movements around the world. So already at the time, we understood that if we use social media—the antisocial corners—it only amplifies the polarization, the extremes. But the way we constructed the conversation network through broad listening, not just broadcasting, was to amplify the middle ground and meet the extremes. So we see conflict and polarization not as fires to be put out, but as kinetic energy for the geothermal engine to create something that people can get behind, no matter how large the ideological gap was.

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