The Seeming Unwillingness Of Anybody To Argue Factually, Accept Ambiguity, Or Admit They Don’t Have The Answers

Between the establishment media and now social media, it seems impossible for me to get a read on what is actually going on anymore. Everything seems to be narrative driven. Nobody cares for the facts except as a means to prop up the viewpoint they are wedded to or to shoot down the viewpoint of those with whom they disagree.

A lot of this stems from the fact that nobody wants to admit they don’t really know what’s going on. Everybody knows big things are happening, everybody senses we are in the midst of a crisis. This creates in them the desire to do something, to trust someone who says they know what’s going on. We want the crisis fixed and we feel like we have to do it urgently. So we create simplistic problems on which we can use simplistic solutions. But there are no simplistic answers to the multiple complex problems we now face, nobody anywhere close to power that is worthy of our trust. This is a hard pill to swallow, and thus we fall back on prior ways of doing things and on established media who once were seemingly reliable.

There is absolutely no nuance in people’s perspective anymore. They cannot see that one person can be right on one subject and wrong on another. They embrace a Manichean worldview inhabited by gods and demons. They cannot imagine speaking to those with whom they disagree. Because anybody who disagrees with them is Satan or at least a willing tool of Satan.