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In my humble opinion, America has fallen into a mindset of righteous indignation. This can be defined as simply one person's opinion is believed to be superior
by Overtonwindow 9y ago
In my humble opinion, America has fallen into a mindset of righteous indignation. This can be defined as simply one person's opinion is believed to be superior over another, but instead of an understanding that this can be true, or false, or neither, there is an overwhelming compulsion for people to demand their opinion reign supreme, even if it harms the other person. This goes beyond simple disagreement, and takes on a malicious form to silence disagreement, force acquiescence, and punish dissenters.
- alexandercrohde 9y agoWhen you say "America has fallen into," it makes it sound like you believe that this is specific to America, and recent. Was there some historic golden-age that I'm unaware of when people didn't get emotional over political views? (consider the duel of our founding fathers)
- Overtonwindow 9y agoI think there was, and it was pre-1990s. Something flipped after that. I feel like before the 90s, there was disagreement, but it didn't take on the extreme, vengeful tactics that it has today. This may be a result of the internet, or the 24hr news cycle, I honestly don't know. But something has changed. There's been a ratcheting up of attempts to silence dissent, and aggressively punish someone for disagreeing.
- 2K17 9y agoA generation of women was brought up with third-wave or whatever feminism. Also you can waste a lot of money on bogus social initiatives at peak economy. Probably many other factors like globalisation.
- humanrebar 9y agoThe end of the Cold War might have had something to do with it. The Other went away, so people pick another one.