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Eric Liu

Oct 16, 2026

Ebong UdamaCORRESPONDENT
9:08
What are those eight points?
9:10
The way the book is structured is around these eight elemental verbs, ways of being and being with that we have forgotten in this age of totally flattening, dehumanizing media and social media and political culture.
9:24
And the eight ways are how to see, how to listen, how to feel, how to join, how to fight, how to change, how to imagine and how to commit.
9:37
And these are upstream of how you cast a ballot, how you organize a rally, how you show up at a city council member's offices or whatever.
9:46
These are what Alexis de Tocqueville called the habits of the heart.
9:50
habits of heart and mind that are actually the glue of any community.
9:54
When we stop seeing each other and just dehumanize and flatten and assume that, oh, I see your tattoo, I see your cap, I see the way you're dressed, I know how you vote, eat, pray, love, think, and I'm just going to dismiss you if I don't like you, I'm just going to swipe you out of my field of existence.
Ebong UdamaCORRESPONDENT
11:06
Explain why.

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