Thomas Sowell once said "It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance".

So much of the vitriolic social media discourse of the last 3-4 years is coming primarily from a place of (a) ego and one-upmanship and (b) a belief in being so unquestionably right that any other opinion simply cannot be entertained.

We don't know what we don't know.

But we should at least be willing to look and find out.

And that's what's NOT happening.

(Whoever would have thought humans in 2023 would have become MORE narrow-minded than they were 100 years ago??).

Many people have enormous gaps in their knowledge, and don't know it, but absolutely believe they are right; therefore you are wrong. And ego and arrogance do the rest.