This is all worded rather technically to describe identity alignment. If a lot of the world operated like Wallstreetbets, we’d have more sanity. Everyone there

This is all worded rather technically to describe identity alignment. If a lot of the world operated like Wallstreetbets, we’d have more sanity. Everyone there knows they are dumb, greedy, desperate, gullible, dumb. Now if Wallstreetbets was a serious place, then the guy who went to this school, works at that company, would have more people trying to align their identity with that person via agreeing (formation of the echo cult). But instead everyone on WSB is given one identity, that of a dumbass. That is the same as having no identity. You can’t even align, since it’s just another dumbass you’d be aligning with. Small example, I’m not antivaxx, but if you even entertain antivaxx, even in my own head, I immediately think ‘shit, am I trumper?’. That’s how concocted our real identity based lives are. ——— Edit: I want to add a little more to this point. Echo chambers are formed in the presence of ambiguity, as in, there’s enough ambiguity to carve out the tribe you belong to (which is a natural human desire). It takes an overwhelming amount of evidence for consensus to form where this natural inclination is short circuited. The perfect example of this is Afghanistan, where no one can possibly rationalize the validity of that war at this point. There are no echo chambers to run to in the face of overwhelming evidence.