It begins by strengthening the framing for the progressive moral system and for the progressive view of democracy based around empathy and the responsibility flowing from that empathy. In other words, we have to care about others—fellow citizens of the world we have never met and never will meet—and recognize the fact that the private depends on the public. That in turn depends on another systemic effect—the effect of language and the brain on public discourse, and the failure in universities to teach that effect.

