So I like the question it's asking, but disagree that the point of conversation is to "solve problems." I think vibes are self-propagating. If every time I tur

So I like the question it's asking, but disagree that the point of conversation is to "solve problems." I think vibes are self-propagating. If every time I turn on the radio all I hear about is 2 wars (when we live in the most peaceful part of recorded history) then I am getting worry-signals over and over (people who lived in times much much worse often were in blissful ignorance of other continents). And that's just NPR, you wouldn't believe the kind of Alex-Jonesy stuff that goes out on the radio in every rural area I've ever visited. So part one is media/clickbait having an incentive to inundate you with controversy/worry, which I think most people have trouble putting in perspective. Then there's some other component, where some percentage of Americans are more bitter than I can explain and have very "burn it down"/civil-war attitudes with absolutely no plan or reason to think they would do well in a war and thought as to what a better system would look like. As best I can tell, this is partly from political parties having an incentive to create a false narrative that every single thing in crisis to activate tribalistic behaviors. I feel like this aligns with the suprising phenomenon of underestimating everybody else's happiness.