Opinions

Superlative statements tend to attract attention and outrage. Since their scope is narrow and sharp, they often meet the opinions of others either with acute alignment or with sharp collision. Both cases rile up the unconscious instincts of emotionally-driven man: those of the zeal for one's own opinions. This can cause strong emotional reactions in the other, and carry them to reply in turn, often also superlatively.

With concordant timing and circumstance, such iterative reactions can easily grow into waves of outrage and conflict, often gathering into two opposing sides, each holding tight to their dear opinions, each congealed into their side by the growing feeling of tribal belonging.

To avoid being unwittingly swept into the peaks and troughs of social storms and commentary, it is necessary to consider one's own opinions and ideas as fallible, malleable, and as separate from oneself.