my brain is just fine no change is needed
are there folks out there who cant cope with adverse opinions - yes
but there will always be those folks
Respectfully, 320, I don't think you're fully getting the point that I'm making.
As the old saying goes, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but they are NOT entitled to their own facts.
We all know that yellow and blue make green, right?
Well, you have one group of people who, through the way they were raised, through their social circles, through their carefully-curated news sources and social media, have constructed a filter that they wear over their eyes that only allow them to see yellow, and blocks all blue. This isn't a pair of glasses they can easily take off, it's something that has been ingrained to be a part of their core identity--it informs them on everything they see in the world and shows the yellow and hides the blue.
Then, you have another group of people who, through the way they were raised, through their social circles, through their carefully-curated news sources and social media, have constructed a filter that they wear over their eyes that only allow them to see blue, and blocks all yellow. Again, this isn't a pair of glasses they can easily take off, it's something that has been ingrained to be a part of their core identity--it informs them on everything they see in the world and shows the blue and hides the yellow.
Now, they're brought together and faced with identifying the color of a bundle of broccoli. The yellow filters all say it's yellow and the blue filters all say it's blue. They're fundamentally incapable of seeing that it's green, and further they can't even understand that the opposite group doesn't see what they see. "There must be something defective in the other group", they exclaim, without realizing that they're just as guilty.
These aren't opinions. To each group, seeing the world in yellow or blue is fact, not opinion. That is the reality under which they live, which they have constructed around themselves.
In America (heck, in the entire world), we need to be a society. There are aspect of society that require working together, and require agreement on certain basic facts. They require both sides to exist in the same reality.
Sadly, today the two sides exist in very different, and mutually exclusive, realities. Therefore they are INCAPABLE of working together because they can't agree on the most fundamental basics of the world that they're looking at.
That's my worry. We can't have a society if we don't live in the same reality, and I see no way to get people back into a single--right or wrong--reality.
