Comment Re:People choose what they want to hear (Score 1) 113
But it's been that way, no? There's a reason that religious dominions, for example, have historically been tightly aligned with political and geographical borders. We lived in communities that essentially didn't know any better, and what they suspected, could easily ignore.
I think what causes unrest now is that it actually does take some effort to ignore those other voices; reblogs, ads, etc. keep pushing, in small quantities, opinions we disagree with. We socialized with people during the age of political correctness, only to later discover that we didn't agree with them as much as we thought -- but now we can't just back out. We're trying hard to put our blinders on, and although we don't have a great mixing and homogenization machine in the sky to force us to all see each others' points of view, we get hints, constantly. And it's an irritant, we're on edge, we're in fight-or-flight mode all the time, because we're being attacked, we're sliding down a slippery slope, we're losing the war for our country, there's a tidal surge coming, the end is near, "they" are on our doorstep. We still have that "us vs them" mentality, but now it's being continuously challenged, just enough to make us angry.