I miss, from before the internet, the certainty and simplicity of beliefs. For example the political spectrum of left or right was simple, bipolar. Now reflections of reality distributed on the internet force more people (than before the internet) to broaden towards multi-spectrum/multi-dimensional beliefs that do not fit into the old bipolar boxes enforced by the entrenched-in-boxes people, such as the box of the left-right political spectrum, with resultant cognitive dissonances.
My cognitive dissonances were fewer before the internet.
Last edited by unboggling; 10-30-2015 at 04:48 AM.
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