A serious curiosity derived from something I’ve noticed more and more often lately:

What the hell has happened to nuanced thought? It seems every day- more and more, it’s either this or that, with us or against us, black or white. What happened to the complexity of thought? Why have we come to be so polarized about every single thing that exists? And it seems it doesn’t matter the subject! The moment a topic is brought up. Sides are immediately taken in the War of Being Right.

It used to be that we considered things. We were rational. Logical. Contemplative.

Now? Everyone seems so quick to arrive at hastily constructed arguments that have to be either for or against- where no argument was necessary or even called for to being with!

It seems to me, that we need to relearn what was once so easily understood, and it’s that life exists between the boundaries of one and the other.

  • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caEnglish
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    46 minutes ago

    There was also a flood of bad faith discussions with every fallacy in the book from belligerent actors. Like Cambridge Analytica and similar scandals including Xitter’s most recent offshore Maga influencer revelation, any significant media audience is ripe for astroturfing.

    Edit: at the slightest hint of a disingenuous discussion, the cutting barbs come out.