The Diamond Age

Ovvero, il sottoscala del portinaio dello Snow Crash
Mon Feb 6

There comes a point when people become too blinded by ideology and labels, that they forget to listen, talk to and understand others with different views.

whakatikatika:

coeus:

This applies to many anti-statists as well. 

Yep, it applies to everyone because continuously and rationally reevaluating positions which disagree with your position is cognitive work that takes a lot of mental effort—with steeply diminishing marginal returns to that cognitive work in most circumstances. And that’s one of the reasons majority-rule elections don’t make for good governance.