I think this is the result of the internet publishing evolving. In the past you had your news and your experts and you took them at face value. Now it’s really easy to debunk any news source or any expert. Information is readily available in all sorts of formats.

The problem is that people like clean cut answers to everything- it makes things simple. This usually leads to extremes. And when your algo or community enables you to join a small group of extremes, you start thinking that’s the truth. We form bubbles and think we are correct and the other guys are idiots.

It seems to me the truth is always much more complex than people make it out to be. It’s somewhere in between extremes. But not always. Basically you have to look at everything without prior conclusions about another thing, and people seem to have a hard time doing that.

I guess the short answer is: information bubbles. 🫧