idk if it was just me. but for a while, spending time on the wider internet and seeing political religious social discourse etc. had caused me, subconsciously, to believe that society was forever divided into two very distinct groups. the Righties and the Wrongies. And that the most important thing in the world is to be one of the Righties and being one of the Righties means having all the correct opinions on whatever the Internet-world is apparently currently discussing, while adamantly fending off the Wrongies and showing how stupid and futile their opinions are. And all your ideas about someone should flow from whether they're more of a Rightie or a Wrongie and so should all your ideas about yourself and how you should behave.
This wasn't explicitly told to me, nor did I realize that's what I was absorbing.
But then I started meeting more new people and interacting with more of Society and going on weird places like tumblr and realizing that in fact the world does not consist of upright and put-together Righties pitted against degenerate and depraved Wrongies
It consists of... that one mysterious neighbor who you don't know how to get close to because their life is so different from yours. It consists of the friend you have fundamentally diverging worldviews with but you stick together because you find something in each other you can't find anywhere else. It consists of weird uncles and very kindly but sometimes clueless grandmothers and troubled cousins and siblings you slowly learn to admire. It consists of people who want to reach out to others but are too lost in themselves and don't know how to change. People who want to know themselves but are too lost in others. People consumed by lust and greed. People leaving the dark and stepping out into the light, very slowly, one weak step at a time. People who talk like an asshole but have the kindest hearts of everyone you know. People who go to political protests and people who have no idea what the latest political hot topic is. People just trying to feed their families. People just trying to find themselves. Or trying to find God. Or trying to run away from him.
My point is, we're a scraggly and multicolored bunch, and it's both better for us and more interesting to maintain a mindset that can allow for all of us, instead of adopting a constant "us vs. them" mentality as many Internet (and real life) spaces can propagate.