Beautifully and logically written. I liked this paragraph the most: “the process of writing hones my opinions – not just how I structure and express them, but the opinions themselves. In a world of political polarisation, it’s all too easy to see an absurd position online and instinctively take the opposite view. In fact, the extreme views surfaced by social media algorithms are typically exaggerated expressions of ideas that, at their base, have some merit. Researching an essay unearths these moderate views, and writing it forces you to engage with them.”
Beautifully and logically written. I liked this paragraph the most: “the process of writing hones my opinions – not just how I structure and express them, but the opinions themselves. In a world of political polarisation, it’s all too easy to see an absurd position online and instinctively take the opposite view. In fact, the extreme views surfaced by social media algorithms are typically exaggerated expressions of ideas that, at their base, have some merit. Researching an essay unearths these moderate views, and writing it forces you to engage with them.”