It’s the internet. A truly gobsmacking number of people can’t.
We’re riding around in a machine that runs on outrage, and we’re as susceptible to conditioning as any creature. It’s unsurprising to me, particularly as I empathise with the urge to keep being wary and upset.
To your first point, the nature of communicating right now, particularly on the internet, means there is no room to have two different voices:
You can’t have an “inside voice” (communicating to those who already agree with you and reinforcing micro-cultural support) and an “outside voice” (communicating with everyone else, potentially finding or convincing new supporters); every statement is heard by everyone and is, de facto, outside voice.
And that’s only for people who would otherwise care to differentiate— the overall culture views conflict as a virtue, and so rewards people who “tell it like it is,” ignoring the fact that you can tell it like it is in ways that don’t maximize belligerence and alienation.
I tend to think of it in the context that our ability to directly observe anything at that scale is limited, so while we can record and observe effects, our knowledge of the processes that lead to them is sparser. It’s like having a low-resolution image of someone’s face— you can tell what it is, but without a clearer picture, you have a harder time with the who.
The how of things exists, we just lack the ability to see it yet(unless, of course, the universe is exactly that strange)
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