>Unsurprisingly, amidst the incredible volume of information coming at us, there’s been a surge in low-res, ideologically-driven views: the world is like this,

>Unsurprisingly, amidst the incredible volume of information coming at us, there’s been a surge in low-res, ideologically-driven views: the world is like this, those people are like that, X is good, Y is bad, A causes B. Not complicated, bro. >The world exists in infinite resolution, and that’s what we’re built for. Except of course that's not how people or nature work. Call it an algorithm or heuristic or whatever you want, but e.g. "don't eat brightly colored animals" is wildly successful. The world does exist in "infinite resolution" but we are not built for it. That's the basic premise of The Good Place: life's too complicated for a person to look at the infinite resolution of everything; just doing the best one can and trying to do better is really all we can do. Don't over-generalize about people, but these shorthands are how we get through an infinitely complicated day. Also, as a kid playing some version of what we called murder[1], a good rule of thumb was the murderer was the one who gave too much detail. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wink_murder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wink_murder