I know what you mean. I suppressed that reasoning in my other comments as it tends to make things worse, but I might as well spit it out: it's US culture. The

I know what you mean. I suppressed that reasoning in my other comments as it tends to make things worse, but I might as well spit it out: it's US culture. The US has always had a binary culture: winner/loser. Democrats vs Republicans. Success or failure. No room for nuance or a gray zone. Nothing new, but now brought to truly explosive levels of polarization. We all know why. This mentality has now made its way into everything. As an example, a lot of people, in this example non-tech people, instinctively reject crypto purely based on the narrative presented to them by the media they follow (which fits their world view) and their Twitter friends. These people haven't spent a minute even trying to understand what it is, yet blindly follow an ever-narrowing behavioral group consensus. Don't get me wrong, you may very well come to the conclusion that crypto is garbage, but wouldn't you first want to learn about it before you flat out reject it? Another example is web development, in particular the community on Twitter. It's basically a radical feminist community now. Recently, a high profile account blasted the life's work of some guy. The guy responds that this pile-on ruined his day. The response: an army of angry women complaining about his "white tech bro" behavior. He was close to losing its job (and reputation) for pointing out that he did not appreciate the out-of-the-blue mass pile-on. Does any of this sound reasonable, healthy, constructive? Dismissing vastly complex topics without knowing a thing about it? Basing good or bad on group think, and rejecting everything else? Basing who is right or wrong based on ethnicity, gender, the like? How very limiting life must be to look at the world through this lens. It has like 90% of pixels blacked out. That's what I mean with the lack of self awareness. US people don't even see this anymore. It's normalized. When you point out they have a closed mind and binary world view, they make effort to show they're on the right side of that binary, failing to see the irony.