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Building an echo chamber alone is hard. (self.conservative)

submitted 2 years ago by stanleytweedle to c/conservative

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Almost feel sorry for this guy, working so hard to create an echo chamber all by themselves.

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[+] rhacer -61 points 2 years ago (16 children)

And the left doesn't do the exact same thing?

As an anarchist I qualify as neither liberal or conservative (unless you view anarchism as the the ultimate conservatism, and some do).

I've found that I often learn things from my conservative friends if I'm actually willing to listen to what they have to say.

I've found that I often learn things from my liberal friend if I'm actually willing to listen to what they have to say.

Until we are all willing to get out of our echo chambers and listen to people who believe differently than we do, we are going to both stagnate and fragment as a society.

[–] stanleytweedle 55 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Why do people feel the need to sign up with an ideology in the first place? You know you can hold all your same beliefs without declaring meaningless solidarity with every other goon that chooses the same team name.

[+] aski3252 -17 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Everyone has an ideology, whether you realize or acknowledge it or not. That doesn't mean that everyone who subscribes to the same ideology has the same views on everything.

People who consider themselves conservatives do exist, whether we like it or not. I much prefer them to be forced to be confronted with other views and opinions every now and then that challenge their worldview.

Otherwise, they will go to some echochamber hosted by right wingers. This has already happened to the point where they basically live in a parallel universe and self-isolate. I don't think it's in anybody's interest for us to also encourage this self-isolation..

[–] Gr3ywind 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You lack imagination. Not everyone in the world thinks exactly like you do. There are billions of humans.

[–] GaryPonderosa 0 points 2 years ago

You're right of course. There's a reason that humanity has never organized itself into groups before.

[–] aski3252 -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not saying everyone thinks like me or that everyone thinks in the same way.. Obviously everyone has, to a certain extend, their own ideology..

"An ideology is a set of beliefs or philosophies attributed to a person or group of persons, especially those held for reasons that are not purely epistemic"