> Why is everyone so extreme? I think that "everyone being so extreme" is part of a larger today's issue: people are just not okay anymore with being normal/av

> Why is everyone so extreme? I think that "everyone being so extreme" is part of a larger today's issue: people are just not okay anymore with being normal/average/just okay. And when I say "not okay" I really mean that people are anxious and get depressed. If you think about it, it's crazy. So people need to find something that defines themselves. There's not anymore such thing like, let's say, "Robert who is vegan" but rather "A vegan named Robert" (or, specularly: "Robert who is carnivore" but rather "A carnivore named Robert"). The "issue" is strong in the IT industry as well, btw: no more "Robert who is an SWE/SDE/DevOps/whatever" but rather "An SWE/SDE/DevOps/whatever named Robert". So yeah... People absorb these kind of "pre-made personalities" and don't bother developing their own. They get some off-the shelf opinions to repeat over and over, and don't bother developing their own. Needless to say, echo chambers don't help.