🧩Oh sweet Jesus, I just realized we’ve self polarized our society into a severe Type A / Type B divide.

So polarized that both sides have deluded themselves into thinking they are talking pure sense to pure intransigence.

Zero communication is actually taking place, people are talking orthogonally to each other.

Type A’s have gaslit themselves into thinking they have perfect vision but they are near sighted. They can only see a tree, while you talk of ecosystems. Ontological mismatch.

Type B’s have gaslit themselves into thinking they have perfect vision but they are farsighted. They see the causality of the large system but are so detached the human component (Dr Manhattan) that they THINK they are communicating dispassionately and accurately and with empathy, but they actually use words that Type A’s are incapable of understanding, attack their very sense of identity, then remain dumbstruck that A’s behaved irrationally when they got cornered into fight/flight (no shit). So smart that they are not realizing they are talking to the blind about color and animation. Ontological mismatch.

I’ve always thought if you’re as smart as you think you are about something, you should be able to convince someone that you are in a position of authority on the subject they are talking about without you yourself becoming irrational and unregulated.

Our generation does have a shared language that bridges the divide. Unironically… Memes. Memetics will likely be an emerging field of communication theory.

So when you want to talk to someone that sounds delusional. Stop getting mad and try and communicate via memes, you’d be surprised at how information dense they can be. A picture really is worth a thousand words. Multiplied by whatever caption you add.

Edit:

Ok, I see I’m coming across as greek. If anyone wants to learn/dive some interesting metaphysics today… I would start with this fun video. If you like it, comeback and re-read my post and see if it seems more clear. I’m happy to talk at length about this topic.

If you are here on your second pass and its starting to be a little clearer, then the next step is read this reply further down.

If you are here on your third pass I would watch the movie “Watchmen (2009)” - Director’s Cut ideally, but theatrical is fine. Try and watch it through the lens of “Perspective.” What does the world look like to each of the characters?

If you are here on your fourth pass, Hi! I love you! Might want to watch “Ender’s Game (2013)” trying to “Understand Your Enemy.”