Without phrasing it in the tongue-in-cheek way I did previously, there's an interesting question about why the discourse has become so dominated by ad hominem attacks to the extent that discussion of the ideas is drowned out. Journalists and politicians are lightning rods for this, but it feels a lot more pervasive than that.
Without phrasing it in the tongue-in-cheek way I did previously, there's an interesting question about why the discourse has become so dominated by ad hominem attacks to the extent that discussion of the ideas is drowned out. Journalists and politicians are lightning rods for this, but it feels a lot more pervasive than that.