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Decreasing polarization itself will not seem as exciting as dealing with the specific problems that we have polarized responses to. But it could be more important, because if we don't fix polarization, we could lose the ability to respond effectively to any other problem.
So if you're the sort of person who likes to work on really important problems that other people overlook, this would be a good thing to focus on. And you'll find there's lots of room for new ideas, because we've barely begun to think about it.
The Story of Us from @waitbutwhy is a really good deep dive into how we got here. One thing I really like is that it provides a common vocabulary of concepts to talk about the problemhttps://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html …
So @johnrobb has been thinking about it for a couple of decades. His stuff is well worth reading.
This is because the two camps have incompatible assumptions about human nature, and the distribution of traits across people.
It's an externalities problem, there are profits to be made off of rage clicks and disinformation. Similar to pollution, which VCs also have been unable to come up with a free market fix for.
I used to be a Muslim extremist, so I'm very passionate about this subject. Good people with good intentions can end up being extremely evil, and everyone is prone to falling into this trap. I think the primary factors to polarization are demonization and "activism vs arguing"
Demonization: If you think the people you disagree with have evil intentions, are ignorant, or looking to deceive you, you won't find any reason to argue with them. Activism: There's a complete dismissal of the importance of rational discourse with popular soundbites...
polarization and fragmentation are part and parcel tho. what went away was a broadly shared vision of reality. people used to play different strategies on the same board, now they've diverged on what game is even being played
even if you could put the toothpaste back in the tube, would you want to? the only way is to go back to the stultifying conformity you decry. better to make the fragmentation more graceful than try to force it back together
Most insightful perspectives I found on this topic https://www.culturalevolution.org/docs/ICE-Evolving-Right-and-Left.pdf … and https://www.shambhala.com/trump-and-a-post-truth-world-14962.html …
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