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Re:Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes by jrumbut on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:21AM (#29550149)
I don't quite understand this argument. Our ancestors were able to get themselves very polarized in their (technologically) simpler times. They believed really wild and counterproductive things too.

We have increased in our polarization compared to 25 years ago, but compared to the many civil wars across time and space we aren't so bad (yet we are at peak incomprehensibility).

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Re:Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes by RandomLensman on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:43AM (#29550266)
Exactly, and in those simpler times a lot of things where indeed pretty much assumed to be Devine/magic etc. Back then things where also very incomprehensible otherwise.

So my point is we are going back to that stage after a short "interregnum" where the machines in our daily lives where somewhat more comprehensible.

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