This is really weird line of argument you're going down. I don't think anyone ever talks in pure facts. Ever. I think literally everything we say is an opinion.

So what you're really trying to do here is argue with me on the basis of some incredulity, which is really just as hominem.

Do you think what you said is true, or do you know what you said is true? Semantics matter, so what you stated did not communicate an opinion. An opinion starts like this: "I think that..."

Tribalism is just human nature, it’s unavoidable

You're stating your opinion as fact, so I may assume it's not an opinion but an error of the mind. If this is anything but an experiment to evoke certain response, it is truly dense.

I think people give you a lot of shit here, but nothing you say seems so outrageous to me, even though I do not agree with some or a lot, or a little, of it.

You do cause a reaction, replies, movement in my timeline, which is what I want.

In short, you're providing me with a service, not just for free (not really though, because you also get what you want out of the exchange: being heard), and I hope you keep doing it for a long time!

The only difference between a text based post & meme is a visual aid.

The visual aid doesn't "breed tribalism".

Tribes form around ideas, not visual aids.

I think you should go on @PeterMcCormack show to share your with his DEMAGOGUERY.

Internet memes are a symptom instead of the cause of all the things happening in the world, good or bad. People meme about stuff they experience and those who feel the same way like the memes. Generalising the whole meme culture is just like saying nostr is bad because anyone can post anything, even illegal stuff. While some people may use nostr to do that, most of don’t. Same with memes.

You must really phunking hate guns and drugs too???

Does that make you conservative authoritarian or progressive authoritarian???

Either way ...

You just hate Freedom.

brilliant of OpenAI to convince people to feed it all of their ideas, code, questions, answers, and now app data…all for free (with an option to pay them of course).

How do you know they are lies? 😂

Memes are a low mental-cost, medium of communication across trust boundaries.

That’s why they are so powerful, like money.

Memes are simple truths. The closest to the truth, the most powerful the meme, which is why they are such an effective and brilliant tool for awakening. Propaganda that is trying to brainwash–based on lies–makes for very poor memes, which is why the left can’t meme to save their lives.

History of money is clear. It doesn’t negate tribes — it allows them to cooperate across boundaries of trust.

Just saying, it’s better to create universal tools any tribes can use rather than attempt to destroy human nature’s affinity for tribes. Independent, free-thought should always be encouraged too of course.

Whether the opinion unpopular or not, I think it's very incorrect.

Because you can point out memes that *are* group signaling, doesn't mean memes are universally this or even that it predominately operates this way. Memes are a medium which forces one to breakdown ideas into their most concise form. They will have the same scope of correctness, painfully wrong, mindless group signaling, etc as literally the concept of "ideas" itself.

ie. you might as well say "ideas are just group signaling to breed tribalism."

I understand, but fighting human nature by wanting everyone to stop being tribal is futile. It’s the very reason we all exist ~ fundamental to the history of evolution itself. Money was one of the first mediums to operate across tribal boundaries.

Additionally, we may have highly nuanced perspectives on any given topic. However, textual and even verbal form of content is can be very limiting in how we express our ideas. It caters to linear, concise expression which may not be how it is represented within ourselves. Whenever we want to express our ideas through language we have to go through translating our thoughts into words, ultimately with some information loss.

Whatever is presented is interpreted as your "all encompassing view", which often is not actually accurate.

Memes are art

I don't know if I would consider Jordan Peterson necessarily intelligent. I think he's average to slightly above with a an air of confidence that makes it seems like he's smarter than he really is.