people talk about an anti-intellectualism era incoming because of teenagers missing common knowledge but i think it's already here in the form of "epic own" "gotcha" culture being our primary communication with strangers.
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you are encouraged to blow off other people's ideas and experiences wholesale as soon as possible when they make their biases apparent and to never attempt to observe and hypothesize why someone would think or say something outside of ignorance. you are discouraged from expanding your knowledgebase.
when people talk about "bad faith argument", it's not just a buzzword for sportsmanship. It's a literal matter of how much "faith" you have in the other person to be acting honestly based on their knowledge — which may include something you don't yet know — and that they are *not* a stereotype.
People often talk about how modern corporate internet has become pervaded with game design that encourages unstable egotistical behaviors like attaching your worth to your engagement numbers and changing your identity to get more, but I think this is one behavior that goes neglected in this topic.
Everybody wants to be righteous, and now, from the comfort of your toilet, you can project yourself as a knowledgeable badass on any topic by reciting talking points that have been passed through a game of Telephone and skim-reading, through your friends, and your friends' friends, down to you.
In an environment that encourages prideful bigotry and other tribal tendencies, there is no reward for seeking knowledge that may cause dysfunction to your existing worldview. Thus, we avoid synthesizing an evolved worldview and logic and values that consistently function with that new information.
Whether it be in topics of politics, morals, culture, or art: Discussion that persaudes or leads to a mutual understanding or any other kind of meaningful change fundamentally cannot exist here, unless we are aware of what this environment wants us to be and we refuse to be that type of person.
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