The War of Ideas

We are reaching a point where the minute we start talking about important topics like feminism, transgender issues, religion, political beliefs, environmental issues, if our viewpoints are different than others, then a mob on the internet comes to shut us down. But society means people with DIFFERENT opinions living together. That is the very backbone of society.

Shielding the opposite viewpoints does not make us stronger, it makes us weaker and more dangerous. We need to learn to let our ideas battle, fight so that our ideas can die instead of us. The alternate is we ourselves fighting and bleeding. We will have to learn to be offended because the pursuit of truth is a bigger virtue than pleasing others or not offending people. Freedom of speech is an all-time low. You cannot put anything you don’t like under “hate speech”. Our ideas will have to learn to take insults and hits because they are young as we are. Blatantly disregarding opposing viewpoints makes us live in an echo chamber and that does not do anyone any good. That is not progress. That is regress. It is regressing back to tribalism where anyone who is in our tribe is our friend and anyone who is not is our enemy.

Our ideas and egos will have to learn to be injured, bleed, die and be reborn with something better.