I believe that oversimplifying things, dumbing things down, is a major contributor to the toxicity of our culture and politics. When you oversimplify complex things, you often end up with a picture that unjustifiably paints one side as right and the other side as wrong, when the reality is actually more like both sides are right to some extent, and wrong to some extent. These oversimplified narratives serve the interests of partisan political players, who want people to blindly believe that their own side is right all the time. It leads to polarization, tribalism, and loss of independent thinking. This is why, I believe it's important to acknowledge the complexity that's actually there in a lot of hot button issues. Dumbing things down don't do it justice, and will only lead to more bias, more divisiveness and more polarization. Which is why, whenever I see an issue being deliberately presented in an oversimplistic way, it always raises a red flag for me. If the dumbed down picture is attached to some emotionally charged rhetoric, then it raises even more red flags.
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This is how to bridge the divide between left-libertarians and right-libertarians Last time, I talked about the need to build a cross-spectr...
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I believe that oversimplifying things, dumbing things down, is a major contributor to the toxicity of our culture and politics. When you ove...
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The only way to a good and sustainable order is via independent thinking Welcome back to The Fault in the Right, a series where I explore th...
