Why is our society drifting apart? Ulrich Schnabel, business editor of the German newspaper Die Zeit, addressed this question at the last Bürger-Uni. In a well-filled auditorium on the Heilbronn educational campus, he showed how self-perception and the perception of others contribute to the division of society, because "egoists are always the others, never ourselves. Is solution hopeless? No, with the help of statistics, the expert appealed for the courage to be considerate and to be kind. Each individual influences a larger social circle than we suspect. Thus, one good deed can, directly and indirectly, motivate up to a million people to do the same. Ulrich Schnabel has hope for a return of the togetherness and every single visitor of this event now probably also. The next Citizens' Uni with the topic "Staying healthy: How Modern Technologies and Research Prevent Disease" will be held on November 9, 2023. The auditorium opens at 6 p.m., with the event beginning at 6:30 p.m. The speaker that evening will be genetics professor Lars Steinmetz from Stanford University School of Medicine.
Bürger Uni: Of Egoists and Kindness
Why is our society drifting apart? Ulrich Schnabel, business editor of the German newspaper Die Zeit, addressed this question at the last Bürger-Uni. In a well-filled auditorium on the Heilbronn educational campus, he showed how self-perception and the perception of others contribute to the division of society, because "egoists are always the others, never ourselves. Is solution hopeless? No, with the help of statistics, the expert appealed for the courage to be considerate and to be kind. Each individual influences a larger social circle than we suspect. Thus, one good deed can, directly and indirectly, motivate up to a million people to do the same. Ulrich Schnabel has hope for a return of the togetherness and every single visitor of this event now probably also. The next Citizens' Uni with the topic "Staying healthy: How Modern Technologies and Research Prevent Disease" will be held on Nov. 9. The auditorium opens at 6 p.m., with the event beginning at 6:30 p.m. The speaker that evening will be genetics professor Lars Steinmetz from Stanford University School of Medicine.