I was pretty good at spending time out of my echo chamber and engaging in constructive dialog until about 10 years ago. That was when a segment of the population at had seemed at most 10% became like 35 almost overnight. What had been productive conversations became invectives that nearly always required someone combination of the following to be true:
- a time machine
- a transporter from the Enterprise
- breaking laws of physics.
It seems to be some combination of Semmelweis Reflex, belief perseverance, 'not from around here', confirmation bias, and......
I. E. "It doesn't fit my narrative so it doesn't exist. "
I eventually became too emotionally exhausted to continue.
Vlad Vexler and Gerdes Explains did collaboration a few weeks ago. Vlad mentioned the difficulty of productive conversations with people who have 'fact allergies'. I've sent a message saying he should devote a whole segment to that.
Sounds very familiar. Reasonable minds can differ, but too many are far from reasonable these days. With them, it's, like you said, exhausting. Even when I agree with a lot of their points, how they choose to bulldoze anything that doesn't "fit" makes me throw up my hands...and quit. :-)
I was pretty good at spending time out of my echo chamber and engaging in constructive dialog until about 10 years ago. That was when a segment of the population at had seemed at most 10% became like 35 almost overnight. What had been productive conversations became invectives that nearly always required someone combination of the following to be true:
- a time machine
- a transporter from the Enterprise
- breaking laws of physics.
It seems to be some combination of Semmelweis Reflex, belief perseverance, 'not from around here', confirmation bias, and......
I. E. "It doesn't fit my narrative so it doesn't exist. "
I eventually became too emotionally exhausted to continue.
Vlad Vexler and Gerdes Explains did collaboration a few weeks ago. Vlad mentioned the difficulty of productive conversations with people who have 'fact allergies'. I've sent a message saying he should devote a whole segment to that.
Sounds very familiar. Reasonable minds can differ, but too many are far from reasonable these days. With them, it's, like you said, exhausting. Even when I agree with a lot of their points, how they choose to bulldoze anything that doesn't "fit" makes me throw up my hands...and quit. :-)