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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
I put a notable effort in reading/viewing/participating in things that are waaaay outside my sphere of agreement, which I hope gives me a relatively more significant idea of what exists out there.
Effectively, I'm a social sadist I think. Maybe I should talk to my therapist about it.
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You're familiar with the terrain, pathways, and battleground of the Culture Warz. That includes the strongholds of your most fanatical opponents. I haven't a clue who or what most of the memes you talk about are.
One of the features of the social media Culture Warz is both the ideological left tribe and ideological right tribe have created a kind of self-sustaining binary fury by addressing themselves almost exclusively to their most extreme opponents.
Henry Adams said: "Politics is the systematic organization of hatreds." The social media world we've created is a damning testament to that observation.