
Originally Posted by
baboon2004
The internet and the explosion of information has opened everyone up to the fact that there is infinite complexity and uncertainty in the world, whereas quite recently one would have taken one's opinion on key topics of the day from a very small range of sources. So I think it's partly a reaction to over-stimulation in terms of opinions and facts.
But I agree that there's value to confusion, or at least being able to hold two things in mind which prima facie might seem contradictory. One of my most-stoked bugbears recently is the inability to hold that two things can simultaneously be true if they are not explicitly contradictory i.e. there's no need to treat life like football and have to 'take sides' at the expense of any nuance (many obvious examples in recent politics). But maybe social media feeds that tendency, because of its limitless capacity for outrage and finding people who are wrong at 1.59am and being forced to correct them rather than going to bed
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