In my opinion, it is important that we do want to talk with each other in the first place. Zygmunt Berdychowski observes that there are countries, like Hungary or Turkey, where talks between the government and the opposition parties are not possible at all, since both sides are trapped in their own identity bubbles. Walls of aversion and hatred, contempt and mistrust have been built between the former parties to the political discourse.

How far are we from building such walls ourselves? Relatively far, since we are still willing to meet in the same place to talk.