Reply #11: Oh yes, social discourse is polarized alright!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

Once again, I go back to Neil Postman's book, "Amusing Ourselves to Death".

He predicts how the fall of the written word as television dominated society would destroy the ability to think critically. He describes the various scenarios that would likely result as the population's IQ steadily dropped.

Absolutely prescient book..... It seems to me that the polarized factions seem to be the ignorant bullies vs the educated "rationals" (for lack of a better term. I had to come up with something, so I could finish my post!)

And, perhaps there's a third tier? the puppet-masters, the CorporateFascists who manipulate the bullies in numerous ways.