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Why does everything have to be so polarized anymore?
by wmccullough 10y ago
Why does everything have to be so polarized anymore?
- steego 10y agoIt sells more ads.
- WalterSear 10y agoIt puts food on the table for journalists, gets politicians elected and is even career building for researchers. This is the attention economy: it's what you get when you combine news with capitalism.
- tptacek 10y ago"Breakfast isn't magical" isn't a polarized position. The polar opposite of "breakfast is magical" is "breakfast is evil", a position this article is at pains not to take.
- rco8786 10y agoI'm not sure that "evil" is the opposite of "magic"
- usrusr 10y agoIt's the perfect opposite if you look at both words the way you have to look at them when they appear in writing about nutritional science. There, both could only ever be used as deliberate exaggerations of the healthy/unhealthy dichotomy, because neither Hogwarts nor James Bond supervillains have a place there.
- pessimizer 10y agoIn the case of articles like this one, it's because a lot of old propaganda, superstition, myths and common sense lessons deriving from apocryphal tales last forever, and are impervious to new information (or more often the ending of the suppression of old information.) One of the reasons they are so hard to update is because these same media outlets and government agencies were the ones that foisted the myths on us in the first place, usually for money, and they are now telling us the truth about some things with the same tone as they told us the lies.
- rconti 10y agoWhy did people start using anymore in the positive anymore?