Not really. I’d say he sees the modern issues we face better than you. It’s an issue of echo chambers. If you concentrate a community only with people who share your ideology, especially radical ideology it just amplifies it within that community and achieves little else.
People begin to believe that their worldview is the dominant one, because they’re entirely unopposed in their thinking. They are never challenged on any major belief, so the discourse is almost pointless and just spends its time running around the edges of difference.
It also breeds laziness, because you never have to defend your position. Mostly just ends up as communities that share memes with eachother which I shouldn’t need to point out is pretty pointless.
Centrism isn’t magically enlightened. Depending on the climate it’s arguably incredibly naive. “Radical centrism” just sounds like having no internal philosophy.
And my comment had nothing to do with bob’s second point about centrism, only the first about surrounding yourself with radicals of any political ideology.
You would benefit from being specific when making a comment where your exact words are wholesale endorsement of someone’s worldview. Turning around and immediately changing the entire thesis of your comment makes it seem like your goal was to be contrarian rather than add to the discussion.
A. "Don’t surround yourself with extremists.
I’d surround myself with extreme centrists instead"
B. “That is shallow”
You. “They see modern issues better than you. (…)”
You may want to rethink how you provide endorsement in general, if someone pointing out how shallow of a belief something that is inarguably shallow encourages you to claim that other someone, off of a single comment, literally sees the world better.
Your reading comprehension isn’t my issue to fix. I didn’t say a word about centrism. As soon as your ego got hurt you come at me with this nonsense. It’s cool, you can still grow from this and have it be worth the time taken.
Not really. I’d say he sees the modern issues we face better than you. It’s an issue of echo chambers. If you concentrate a community only with people who share your ideology, especially radical ideology it just amplifies it within that community and achieves little else.
People begin to believe that their worldview is the dominant one, because they’re entirely unopposed in their thinking. They are never challenged on any major belief, so the discourse is almost pointless and just spends its time running around the edges of difference.
It also breeds laziness, because you never have to defend your position. Mostly just ends up as communities that share memes with eachother which I shouldn’t need to point out is pretty pointless.
Centrism isn’t magically enlightened. Depending on the climate it’s arguably incredibly naive. “Radical centrism” just sounds like having no internal philosophy.
And my comment had nothing to do with bob’s second point about centrism, only the first about surrounding yourself with radicals of any political ideology.
You would benefit from being specific when making a comment where your exact words are wholesale endorsement of someone’s worldview. Turning around and immediately changing the entire thesis of your comment makes it seem like your goal was to be contrarian rather than add to the discussion.
A. "Don’t surround yourself with extremists.
I’d surround myself with extreme centrists instead"
B. “That is shallow”
You. “They see modern issues better than you. (…)”
You may want to rethink how you provide endorsement in general, if someone pointing out how shallow of a belief something that is inarguably shallow encourages you to claim that other someone, off of a single comment, literally sees the world better.
Have a good one.
Your reading comprehension isn’t my issue to fix. I didn’t say a word about centrism. As soon as your ego got hurt you come at me with this nonsense. It’s cool, you can still grow from this and have it be worth the time taken.
It’s a fun game to call failures of rhetoric someone else’s failure of reading comprehension. Flimsy, too.