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Break out of the echo chamber; perspective is how you make noise.
Listen to an echo for too long and you’ll be deaf.
A secret pastime of mine is looking at a political post and seeing the two colonies of ants wage war in the comments.
It’s a part of my “Road to Rome” check.
You know when you get so much infighting in a country… Rome-things happen. And… uhh selfishly, I don’t want that to happen.
So I passively monitor.
And what’s interesting is that if you spend enough time watching these ants arguing, you’ll notice that they rarely come to a middle ground.
Instead, they dig in deeper than a WWI trench and wait to get trench foot.
The casualty of this war is that genuine dialogue is rarely exchanged.
Only memes, assumptions, and well-worn talking points of the latest drama of the day.
And perhaps the biggest reason for this is that social media is an echo chamber.
Too Much Confirmation Bias
Confirmation Bias is the tendency to process information by looking for, or interpreting, information consistent with one’s existing beliefs.
