Trade volume and sociopolitical communities failing to engage
Free expression works because each time we speak we simultaneously emotionally express, and, in doing so, we “bet” some of our reputation, moreso depending on the confidence or disdain we evince.
Reputation is a social CURRENCY, and different sociopolitical communities end up with different currencies, and their valuation depends on which community you sit within.
This, in turn, explains why opposing communities so often fail to engage with one another, as I explain in this Moment #98, from June 11, 2021.
The current education model isn't set up to teach people how to engage with ideas and communities that are different than our own. The educational system teaches test taking. Right and wrong answers. No learning environment like portrayed in movies like The Paper Chase, Dead Poet's Society, etc. There's nothing to stimulate intellectual curiosity, exploration. Only rote memorization of a "right way" to think.
The Socratic method. Absent an educational system that values discourse, understanding the other side of a contentious issue I don't see how societal-wide engagement can happen. Minds are already closed and conditioned to self-righteousness by the time kids become adults.
Whitney Houston was right, the Children are our Future. It's most of our generation's fault for not being an active part of the system of education our children have been subjected to for at least two generations since objective test taking became the academic model instead of subjective Socratic discourse. It's the long game our adversaries have been playing. I don't see a quick winning solution.