Nice article. you're right. You must be present in the now yesterday's history tomorrow's a mystery. It's about what we can do right here where we're at.
You are largely right here. But I’m still not sure that I’m going to make up over the online falling-out I’ve had with a friend I’ve had since the 1990s, over his dogmatic antizionism.
KB: The more we retreat into groups of people who only agree with us, the more radicalized we all become because pushback disappears.
Indeed. ICYMI, an old post -- 2013 -- on the topic by the co-founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, about "Internet Silos":
QUOTE; Edge: Internet Silos
We should be worried about online silos. They make us stupid and hostile toward each other.
Internet silos are news, information, opinion, and discussion communities that are dominated by a single point of view. Examples are the Huffington Post on the left and National Review Online on the right, but these are only a couple of examples, and not the worst, either. In technology, Slashdot is a different kind of silo of geek attitudes. ...UNQUOTE
Clever fellow 🙂. I've been following bits and pieces of his career, his peregrinations for some years, although I got most involved after having a run-in with a bunch of editors at Wikipedia. Even created a Substack post describing my "tale of woe", my defenestration there as an editor about "Wikipedia's Lysenkoism" in case you were interested 😉🙂 :
While I can't say that I've read it, or your own post -- yet -- in much detail -- sorry 🙂, I'm reminded of a classic book I "borrowed" from an old girlfriend more than a few decades ago on "The Lonely Crowd". Something of an "age-old" problem -- right from our distant ancestors huddling around the first fire -- and I'm not sure whether the Internet, our "electronic agora" is much of an improvement or a solution. Although it is hard to deny that it certainly increases the number of potential interlocutors. 🙂
This, of course, is spot on. How we get people to pause and listen, however, is going to be tough. I start by using three words: "Tell me more"
Nice article. you're right. You must be present in the now yesterday's history tomorrow's a mystery. It's about what we can do right here where we're at.
You are largely right here. But I’m still not sure that I’m going to make up over the online falling-out I’ve had with a friend I’ve had since the 1990s, over his dogmatic antizionism.
KB: The more we retreat into groups of people who only agree with us, the more radicalized we all become because pushback disappears.
Indeed. ICYMI, an old post -- 2013 -- on the topic by the co-founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, about "Internet Silos":
QUOTE; Edge: Internet Silos
We should be worried about online silos. They make us stupid and hostile toward each other.
Internet silos are news, information, opinion, and discussion communities that are dominated by a single point of view. Examples are the Huffington Post on the left and National Review Online on the right, but these are only a couple of examples, and not the worst, either. In technology, Slashdot is a different kind of silo of geek attitudes. ...UNQUOTE
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23777
Very true. Really interesting quote from Sanger. too.
Clever fellow 🙂. I've been following bits and pieces of his career, his peregrinations for some years, although I got most involved after having a run-in with a bunch of editors at Wikipedia. Even created a Substack post describing my "tale of woe", my defenestration there as an editor about "Wikipedia's Lysenkoism" in case you were interested 😉🙂 :
https://humanuseofhumanbeings.substack.com/p/wikipedias-lysenkoism
But Sanger kind of took them to task though maybe to little effect -- an old post of his that you might have some interest in as well on the topic:
Wikipedia Is More One-Sided Than Ever; June 30, 2021; Larry Sanger
https://larrysanger.org/2021/06/wikipedia-is-more-one-sided-than-ever/comment-page-7/#comment-464746
Bonus is my comment thereon ... 😉🙂
But interesting article there at PNAS -- thanks: "Why more social interactions lead to more polarization in societies":
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12595431/
While I can't say that I've read it, or your own post -- yet -- in much detail -- sorry 🙂, I'm reminded of a classic book I "borrowed" from an old girlfriend more than a few decades ago on "The Lonely Crowd". Something of an "age-old" problem -- right from our distant ancestors huddling around the first fire -- and I'm not sure whether the Internet, our "electronic agora" is much of an improvement or a solution. Although it is hard to deny that it certainly increases the number of potential interlocutors. 🙂
We are the sum of our experiences, good and bad and indifferent. Everyone has a “the rest of the story” life hidden away. Thanks for this wise essay.
Thank you so much for reading!