Oh yeah, the whole "always on the clock" thing is horrible. I'm glad my home country(Canada) actuly made it so that work places can't expect people to respond to work stuff outside of work hours unless they are paid to be on call.
The echo chambers also make people more extreme, like, if you don't agree 10000% you're the bad guy. Even if your view is actually 80% in line with theirs. So instead of anyone being resonable you got two extremes that see each other as demons. And while some issues def have a good side and a bad side it leaves no space for nuance.
There's a bitter part of me that's just like, if it falls down so fast, was it ever really compassion or was it just politeness?
Also thank ya for the top commenter vote! :D
Is that bitterness or are you genuinely onto something?
I recently listened to a psychologist who said we normally only tend to form cohesiveness in groups of up to about 100 (I think that was the number he gave) so when we started to form larger societies in order to keep everyone working together we needed a shared religion, enemy or blood. So if we need a common cause, maybe we unconsciously look for an enemy ourselves.
So true. And if you believe this then you must also believe all this other stuff that we've decided believers of that also believe! You agree with something on the left you must believe all the left wing stuff and if you believe something on the right then you are completely right wing. Never mind that 80% of people are somewhere in the middle.
Not my doing. They got there before me. ;D