Why do people (L and R) seem more prone to fly to extremes? How do we stop this when it's encouraged and mentally an easier place to end up. Also, is "internet brain shrink" ever going to end?
soup crushing
But honestly settle down there, tough guy. No one is out to get you. The internet and news magnify the exceptions to the rules and just throw large shadows on tiny, deformed midgets.
People are dumb and getting dumber. Not even making that up. We're more informed... about things that don't directly matter to us and to things we have less and less control over. Which means that we have less and less time to really think about the few things that do matter to us and that we do have control over.
Blessed is the man who walls not job the counsel of the wicked... but his delight is in the Law of the Lord (our something of similar importance and Purity). And on this he meditates night and day!
Better to own a single good, meaningful and important book (and no I'm not advocating Christianity here, btw) and spend your life exploring and coming to your own conclusions about it... than a library that you've only skimmed.
Devil's Advocate: they're just more likely to ask for help and not be hung up on a diagnosis.