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.

  • flamiera@kbin.melroy.org
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    5 hours ago

    The Hivemind Complexity.

    I say that because it is a collective process that exist in a large amount of online communities, Lemmy and the Fediverse being no different. People online are way too used to having thoughts of theirs being parroted. Then comes the constructs of all of these karma systems for people to vote said thoughts of and that creates a level of its own discourse that, people will say or do things for some validity based on that.

    And anyone else who comes along that thinks or says different than the seeming majority, are scrutinized, bullied and branded to be moderated.

    Everyone is just too used to being around others who agree with them.