Yeah, I get your point. It's like the internet (or something else) has caused people to become worse at openly communicating and exchanging ideas and view points when we all expected it to help that become easier. So many people stick to the view they're comfortable with, and insist anyone else is wrong, stupid, or evil.

I sort of think text messaging is part of it. Even when we started with email and online chats it was generally in the form of long email or conversations about more than one thing. Now people are so used to constantly texting that if you send texts that are more than a sentence or two people think you're weird, and most people even places like this where you can write as much as you need to convey your meaning stick to tiny blips that could be texts.

That's one of my two old guy conspiracy theories. The other is that the reason everything else in the world got way more expensive but somehow it's now almost cheaper to panel a house in huge 4k TVs than it is to use drywall is because most guys like huge shiny TVs and we're less likely to be out rioting that everything else is getting shitty if there's 80" football and elf boobies at home.