Taking stock of our fragmented political landscape, Michael Patrick Lynch delivers a trenchant philosophical take on digital culture and its tendency to make us into dogmatic know-it-alls. The internet?where most shared news stories are not even read by the person posting them?has contributed to the rampant spread of “intellectual arrogance.” In this culture, we have come to think that we have nothing to learn from one another; we are rewarded for emotional outrage over reflective thought; and we glorify a defensive rejection of those different from us. We all tend to be overconfident in our knowledge, loyal to our tribe, and affected by the outrage factory of social media spreading politics of arrogance and blind conviction.
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