“Like-minded, homogeneous
groups squelch dissent, grow more extreme in their thinking, and ignore
evidence that their positions are wrong. As a result, we now live in a giant
feedback loop, hearing our own thoughts about what's right and wrong bounced
back to us by the television shows we watch, the newspapers and books we read,
the blogs we visit online, the sermons we hear, and the neighborhoods we live
in.”— American
journalist and social commentator Bill Bishop with sociologist
Robert Cushing, The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart (2008)
(The image of Bill Bishop
that accompanies this post was taken at IdeaFestival2015 on May 23, 2014, by Geoff Oliver Bugbee.)
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