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.
A lot of people just don’t understand nuance or anything else beyond black and white thinking because that is how they were raised. They don’t understand that other people have different experiences, especially if they don’t interact with people who have different experiences.
Our increasingly disconnected society means fewer in person interactions to reduce the chances of finding out something new when they actively avoid it.
All of that is lurking in the background when they hop on the internet and interact with others by not reading and understanding what is being said and instead just digging in.