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One of the great things about the internet is that you can choose to listen to people you might never meet or get along with, and update your views accordingly
by garysieling 10y ago
One of the great things about the internet is that you can choose to listen to people you might never meet or get along with, and update your views accordingly without the psychological pain described in the article.
A lot of libraries have archives of oral histories, which are a really great window into other people's lives, especially as a correction for assuming you know what someone else is thinking.
https://www.findlectures.com/?p=1&type1=Historical%20Speech&talk_type_l2_Historical_Speech=-Oral%20histories,Filmed%20Interviews,Oral%20Histories,Filmed%20interviews,Ethnography,Personal%20narratives https://www.findlectures.com/?p=1&type1=Historical%20Speech&...
It seems like there ought to be a good way to categorize these topically, although I'm not sure what that should be.
- M_Grey 10y agoI found this to be true as well. I started off as an extremely rigid thinker, and it's my contact with people holding diverse views on and offline that have changed that. I'm still highly skeptical, occasionally bordering on pessimism, but I'm a much more flexible thinker. I don't seek to judge as much as I just try to understand perspectives. I really doubt that could have happened, at least in any reasonable amount of time, without the internet.