The opportunities to come across information we don’t agree with are now diminished. We can easily expose ourselves only to the information that supports our views, stated as facts right there on the Internet. We show up at the table armed with our already decided upon personal truths, and when the information coming at us doesn’t fit what we already know, we stop listening and discard it. The more information we have, the more “right” we are — and the less related. When information becomes an equal opportunity weapon, there is no open room to build consensus and no possibility for something
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