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Originally Posted by Byue
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Ah yes.
The post doctorate flaw that makes you want to be validated and thus only taking in the information you care about and this is very exactly how you get a PhD.
America largely divided by education level.
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I have no idea how you get a PhD because I don’t have one. Do you?
You would be blind to not realize that social media is programmed to feed you mostly information that it thinks you would want to take in. And what it assumes (correctly so for most people) is information you want to take in is information that confirms your pre-existing beliefs
Also, it is human nature to want to shut down the opposition. If there more of one party in a particular location, that party will tend to bully the other one out of that location. Both parties do this. We tend to want to surround ourselves with people who validate and don’t challenge how we feel, because that’s considered (and correctly so) therapeutic
Or am I wrong on this. Do you attend conservative rallies and insist on surrounding yourself with mostly conservative friends by choice and not because they are the only ones available? Bravo if so, but you would be an anomaly
Also, most news media on both sides are outrage merchants peddling clickbait headlines, because it sells. I can deny the ethics of such a tactic all day, but I cannot deny the efficacy of it