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Most people don't want to have truth-seeking complex discussions because it's hard and boring.

• smallmancontrov 3y ago
  Hard, boring, and a social liability.
  • tux3 3y ago
    There's a lot of truth to be found out there that is useful, technical, and utterly devoid of public attention. But if the truth-seeking you're thinking of is being a culture war truther, that'd certainly explain the woes.
    • spacebanana7 3y ago
      A lot of technical issues are very controversial. It can be difficult to discuss inside an enterprise because everyone’s already so committed to a particular solution. People have very strong opinions about crypto, SPAs, and CDNs.
      • tux3 3y ago
        It can be difficult to discuss technical issues inside an enterprise, but if it turns into a social liability, either you enterprise culture is extraordinarily corrosive to the soul, or what you're doing is culture war. The words they used are social liability, not merely controversial. It's a pretty high bar for how wrong a discussion in an enterprise has to go that it turns into a social liability.
    • TeMPOraL 3y ago
      Maybe they're thinking about what they said, which is seeking out truth about issues that happen to be thrown around in culture war? Anyway, you don't have to go all the way there for knowledge to become a social liability. The more you understand about the universe and the human world - hell, the more permission to think you give yourself - the more you realize just how much utter bullshit regular people believe about everything. Homeopathy, weird coaching stuff, fitness and dieting and cosmetics. This supplement will help your health, that fruit will stop some ailment, looking at a microwave when it's cooking will ruin your eyes, etc. Most of this bullshit is fed by content marketers, through magazines, shows, radio, podcasts, and social media. I have a whole rant about ethics of advertising, but that's for another day; point here is: it doesn't take much truth-seeking before it gets incredibly cringe to talk with most people. You either let them keep believing in bullshit and suffer inside, or speak up and end up being pushed out of the group.
• HKH2 3y ago
  It's kind of boring at the beginning while you figure out where people are coming from, but if you do it genuinely and openmindedly, it's bound to get interesting.
  • loceng 3y ago
    Especially if the mob and/or government begin to want to "cancel" you.