Oh, I agree. In the past ten years the percentage of people who pop off at almost literally nothing just keeps climbing. It's like every piece of new information is an existential threat. I've heard it called 'fact allergy', 'information intolerance', 'reality resistance', and a few other alliterative names that escape me. My personal fa…
Oh, I agree. In the past ten years the percentage of people who pop off at almost literally nothing just keeps climbing. It's like every piece of new information is an existential threat. I've heard it called 'fact allergy', 'information intolerance', 'reality resistance', and a few other alliterative names that escape me. My personal favorite is 'Semmelweis Reflex'. If you manage to get an explanation out of them, it's one factual inaccuracy after another after another.... So many truly exemplify that old meme, "I've already made up my mind. Don't confuse me with the facts."
I miss the days when people were willing to admit if they didn’t know something and didn’t feel the need to have an opinion/pov about everything. Civil discourse was a lot more civil then. :-)
Oh, I agree. In the past ten years the percentage of people who pop off at almost literally nothing just keeps climbing. It's like every piece of new information is an existential threat. I've heard it called 'fact allergy', 'information intolerance', 'reality resistance', and a few other alliterative names that escape me. My personal favorite is 'Semmelweis Reflex'. If you manage to get an explanation out of them, it's one factual inaccuracy after another after another.... So many truly exemplify that old meme, "I've already made up my mind. Don't confuse me with the facts."
I don't know what the answer is...
I miss the days when people were willing to admit if they didn’t know something and didn’t feel the need to have an opinion/pov about everything. Civil discourse was a lot more civil then. :-)