There's a chilling effect with regards to beliefs that fall outside the Overton Window. As norms change within a group, those who hold beliefs outside the Over

There's a chilling effect with regards to beliefs that fall outside the Overton Window. As norms change within a group, those who hold beliefs outside the Overton Window can become afraid to express those beliefs, and that leads to people simply not even comprehending another group's views. How did Trump get elected president? Why didn't we see it coming? This is what the people in my Manhattan office were thinking the day after the election. On the other hand, family members from Nebraska were laughing and asking how the coastal elite "didn't get it". We aren't talking because we can't disagree without falling out with each other. I expect the same is true of sexual norms, dating norms, social norms, norms about drugs and alcohol, etc. Generationally, the Snapchat generation probably has no idea what those growing up in the 1940s believed, and those who were teenagers during the American sexual revolution of the 1960s would probably be surprised by the way teens date and have sex today. We have vague ideas and notions but how many of us have had 30+ min conversations about these topics with people who are from a far off generation? No one communicates and I believe historians of the future will feel it's an enormous tragedy that we don't have better surveys and public records of personal beliefs in areas that are controversial or highly personal. And more than just 'what do you believe', but 'what are the circumstances that led you to have those beliefs, what were the consequences around your actions that influenced those beliefs', etc.