We see it happening, but we get sucked in anyway
If it can be thought of or carried out, humans will do it to the extreme.
Many people see it between left and right, right and wrong, religious or secular… It’s none of those things.
We just have an overwhelming tribal urge to strongly appose people with differences, because in animalistic terms, different could mean danger.
Unfortunately, ambivalence to someone’s view is the same as opposing it. Flight ironically becomes a fight.
At times, we like to think of ourselves as above animalistic behaviours, but the modern form of humans only evolved about 200,000 years ago. Civilization as we know it is only about 6,000 years old and industrialization only started in the 1800s.
Progress moves quicker than our ability to adapt to it.
“The world’s gone mad.” says everyone, ever. It’s not that it has, it’s that we latch on and publicise extremism of any kind. That coverage or virality is designed to be inflammatory, to further the battle of two ‘sides’ and make money from the outrage surrounding it.
It’s easy to get caught up in the whirlwind, but remember by definition, you can’t control ‘chaos’.