What Changes Minds Anymore? Anything?

We don’t get to the “why” of dissent in discussion anymore. We just entrench with our sides.

Had dinner with a friend last night and we discussed this a little bit. We live in a time very divided by ideology and identity. In reality, that division is probably more pronounced than it really is day-to-day, because a lot of people in the world are just trying to find purpose, raise a family, earn some income, etc… and they don’t really care about every transgender bathroom issue that flares up weekly.

At the same time, though, it can often seem right now like there’s nothing that actually changes minds. You look at something like Elon and the “Twitter Files” from the end of last week, right? That could have changed some minds about how power works, liberal connections to power, how elections are influenced by media/mass consumption, etc. Instead, what basically happened is that “the right” got entrenched on their position (“Hunter Biden is a crook! Biden Crime Family! Musk is a savior and exposing things!”) and “the left” got entrenched on their position (“This doesn’t matter! Ivanka and Jared did the same thing! This is a distraction!”)

Nothing really changes minds anymore, it seems. An issue arises, everyone has a take around the issue (by “everyone” I mean people that…