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Originally Posted by Matata
I think this snap back towards tribalism is culture shock due to the mass information being readily available at everyone's finger tips, nothing could have braced our culture for this transition and some sort of cultural spasm was bound to occur. I think it is inherent that knowledge breeds refinement and in the long run this is just a hiccup.
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Dan Carlin's latest podcast addresses this. We're in the midst of such a radical and rapid transformation of our communication and social networks that nobody understand what's going on anymore.
https://www.dancarlin.com/product/co...e-bell-trolls/
But as Carlin says, how do you dial back this level of hate once it's unleashed? Once incendiary partisanship becomes the default way people talk about politics and social concerns? I suppose you can look back at other times of extreme social conflict, like the late 60s (anyone who thinks politics has gone off the deep end today needs to read about the #### that went down in 1968) and see that society can recover a new equilibrium. Maybe people will simply get exhausted at some point.