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Pew did a comprehensive study of urban, suburban, and rural communities (link below). Their empirically-backed findings are pretty divergent from these common s

Pew did a comprehensive study of urban, suburban, and rural communities (link below). Their empirically-backed findings are pretty divergent from these common stereotypes. https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/05/22/what-unites-and-divides-urban-suburban-and-rural-communities/ https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/05/22/what-unites-and-d... There's even an entire portion of the report that basically boils down to "everyone thinks others do not understand their community's problems but is pretty confident they understand other community's problems". https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/05/22/how-people-in-urban-suburban-and-rural-communities-see-each-other-and-say-others-see-them/ https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/05/22/how-people-in-urb...

zackmorris 7y ago
Interesting, I wonder if this has been changing due to the arrival of the telephone, internet, etc. Like maybe other factors contribute to local vs global thinking more than geography. I'm honestly at kind of a loss as to why politics is so polarized right now. I've tried just about everything I can think of, but can't create a self-consistent system of logic that explains the reasoning behind why people vote the opposite way that I do. It must be something subjective like religion or some context that I'm not privvy to. I'm kind of joking and kind of not when I say that I wish we had an AI trained to be either liberal or conservative so that we could study it and see where it diverged. It's like we're way out on separate branches of a large search tree, so lack the context to understand where the other side is coming from. It really messes with me, because I should be able to understand a system of logic even if I don't agree with it. But I can't even get that far. What gives?!
- jbboehr 7y ago
  > can't create a self-consistent system of logic that explains the reasoning behind why people vote the opposite way that I do. Have you read any SlateStarCodex? He may have some relevant thoughts, see for example top posts [0] especially #3 and #4. Also maybe worth researching: cultural evolution and memetics. [0]: https://slatestarcodex.com/about/ https://slatestarcodex.com/about/

zackmorris 7y ago

Interesting, I wonder if this has been changing due to the arrival of the telephone, internet, etc. Like maybe other factors contribute to local vs global thinking more than geography. I'm honestly at kind of a loss as to why politics is so polarized right now. I've tried just about everything I can think of, but can't create a self-consistent system of logic that explains the reasoning behind why people vote the opposite way that I do. It must be something subjective like religion or some context that I'm not privvy to. I'm kind of joking and kind of not when I say that I wish we had an AI trained to be either liberal or conservative so that we could study it and see where it diverged. It's like we're way out on separate branches of a large search tree, so lack the context to understand where the other side is coming from. It really messes with me, because I should be able to understand a system of logic even if I don't agree with it. But I can't even get that far. What gives?!

jbboehr 7y ago
> can't create a self-consistent system of logic that explains the reasoning behind why people vote the opposite way that I do. Have you read any SlateStarCodex? He may have some relevant thoughts, see for example top posts [0] especially #3 and #4. Also maybe worth researching: cultural evolution and memetics. [0]: https://slatestarcodex.com/about/ https://slatestarcodex.com/about/