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The less people communicate, the more misunderstandings and animosities there will be which will ultimately lead to Many Bad Things(tm).

Recently, people are greatly incentivized to join a group and excommunicate those outside of it. This is a problem if it goes beyond superficial things like Windows vs. Linux, into things like culture and politics.

I'm surprised and saddened this needs to be explicitly stated here of all places.




> I'm surprised and saddened

Has it crossed your mind that you might be wrong, and better communication may lead to better (i.e. worse) dissension?

I know the conventional wisdom, it's spouted everywhere. Is there proof?

Nowadays people "communicate" a lot, and mostly know perfectly well what others are about. Did it lessen friction?




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