Partisanship is Bad for You
Free Stock photos by Vecteezy Partisanship is Bad For You Originally posted on vsplanet.com Though my critique is aimed at the phenomenon of party politics–and faction-ism in general–and not at one particular party, when I bring up this topic I inevitably get replies that assure me some people absolutely can’t understand my point–and to a degree, for reasons I totally get, don’t want to understand it, because to understand it means to acknowledge that one huge group and/or another whom they have spent years developing a special hatred for are normal people just like them. That reality is so disruptive to their worldview that it has to be flagged as nonsense lest the person have to challenge their own assumptions about a whole huge bunch of other things. Our brains hate it when we try to correct it with new learning. Our brain is the world’s most remarkable pattern-repetition device, and having to build new neural pathways–re-evaluating “priors” in order to contextualize novel input i
