In this process we swap the tools of objective discovery + observation for gut feelings + social sentiment.
Our interpretive minds coax us into a lull of self-pleasing thoughts.
With less externality, we fold in on ourselves, empowering ego Über Alles.
By over-advocating everyone’s ‘evidence-less opinions’, the demand for common rubrics of understanding is (artificially) suppressed.
This weakens the institutions we maintain; regardless of how they are organized (public, private, intentional, anarchic..)
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1J6h7Bex83EVCGvamT5LMVm9MECX4bSquW VerifiedThe iterative + cumulative impact is a destruction of critical thinking in the individual, and a deference to the prevailing current; a manifestation of loneliness.
This is exactly the sort of nihilistic mentality espoused by the protagonist of the OP.