I am walking through a facility, wandering from room to room. Each one is filled with people, talking, debating, watching. There’s a strange energy in the air, like something is about to happen.
Then I heard a commotion. It sounds like a fight.
I move closer and peek into one of the rooms. Inside, two men are physically fighting. One of them is Steve, ( the guy from the gym) He’s throwing punches at a much bigger man. For a moment, I just stand there, unsettled.
Then someone beside me says, almost casually, that it’s all part of an experiment.
The experiment, they explain, is to have people with opposing political views talk to each other for as long as possible, to see if they ever get to agree or if they don’t how far things escalate.
“that looks pretty heated” I say and walk away.








