mikedilger on Nostr: I'm not sure what to think of this, but ever since about 2014 the world's "thinking" ...

I'm not sure what to think of this, but ever since about 2014 the world's "thinking" has bifurcated. We have narrative bifurcation. On many issues there are two camps with extremely different beliefs. Sometimes I take one side or the other, and sometimes I think that the actual truth is a complex mixture and both camps are wrong, and yet most people fall into one of two camps holding views with little nuance which are severely bifurcated from each other. Some examples:

Trump is a criminal and Putin puppet -vs- Trump is being taken out by the system he threatens
Climate change is real and damaging -vs- Climate change isn't happening or is all for the good
Canola and other seed oils are very healthy -vs- Seed oils are toxic and very unhealthy
Plant based diets are very healty -vs- Carnivore diets are the healthiest
Russia is going to invade Europe next -vs- Russia won't go much further and only wants to disable Ukraine

I'm less interested in these particular topics as I am in the general pattern of having two very different sets of beliefs on so many issues.

I don't remember it being like this in the past.

I'm tempted to conjecture that some outside force is trying to divide the West ideologically in order to collapse it, and is taking advantage of our free speech to do it, and is laughing about it over vodka and baijiu.