I mentioned Terence McKenna earlier on in this thread, and I think his view explains a lot.
He argues that language creates a separate bubble of reality for each person.
We all have “different” views of reality than every other person.
Language is our attempt to make our version of reality understandable to other people, but it is a very imprecise tool.
All of us censor ourselves all the time when we deal with other people. We automatically practice “when in Rome do as the Romans do”-otherwise we would be getting in fist fights with almost everyone we encounter.
Once you understand how this works, then the existence of crazy belief systems becomes totally understandable.
Some folks can be reached by logical argument, but many are highly resistant to that form of communication.
I see that here all the time. I may agree with a person on ninety nine out of a hundred issues and think we agree on everything, and then one of us touches the previously unknown “third rail” where we strongly disagree.
I see that all the time, and I do work hard to avoid it. It doesn't mean I avoid discussion. I just know that stoking a certain fire that will have no effect beyond damaging my enjoyment of this site is simply not worth it.
Granted, I do have my limits as we all do, and there are certain things that I won't allow to pass, but...that is life.
I will say, that one of the issues I see that goes beyond that "bubble" created by language is the Leftist practice of relativism, where they ostensibly maintain the veneer that any "reality" is just as valid and worthy of consideration as any other "reality".
(I say "ostensibly", because it only covers their bizarre versions of reality. Yours and mine are not worthy of consideration.
The problem is, it balkanizes reality, in that everyone is allowed to have their "own reality". In this world, there is no such thing as a common reality, and I have seen that an allowance such as that is exceedingly dangerous and is corroding the very foundations of society.