See.
I knew the two of us could agree on at least one thing, Cronos. :)
And, probably most other things as well...
I guess it is the nature of internet conversations along with the society we live in that we are very very quick to find disagreements.
Take care FRiend,
Euro.
I remember reading that 80% of human communication is non-verbal (so physical cues) and another 10% is tone and pace of voice.
So an internet “conversation” is severely lacking by default :)
At the end we act like two people sending messages by pigeon from Beijing to Buenos Aires in the 1600s - so a lot is lost in translation.
Even more so, I work in BI/AI and the concerning thing about my field is that we are polarising conversations - we track and see how people react and can predict their purchasing strategy based on dozens of data points. But this is also used in Facebook and google and SELF-done here on Freerepublic and Huffpost (stopped going there after they went bad even for commie posts! like Dan Brown writing bad) - meaning talking shops. Everyone agrees on everything or else they get ostracised.
I think that’s scary - we don’t want groupthink. We want to disagree on little things — but remembering that we do have a lot of other things in common.