在新冠疫情之前，你可以和持有完全不同观点的人坐下来，倾听彼此的想法，然后带着新的收获离开，或者只是达成共识，求同存异。这两种结果都是可以接受的，都不需要任何人因此而受到伤害。
现在看来这似乎不可能了。
发生了什么变化？
新冠疫情加速了某些现象的发生，但并非其始作俑者。不宽容、群体思维、拒绝考虑其他观点，这些现象早已存在，伺机而动。
它只是需要合适的时机来接管。
我们失去了一些重要的东西：即使想法不同，也能共同思考的能力。
而大多数人甚至都没有停下来注意到这一点。
这话说得非常客气了。
Before COVID, you could sit down with someone who held an entirely different view, hear each other out, and walk away either having learned something new or simply agreeing to disagree. Both were acceptable outcomes. Neither required anyone to be destroyed.
That now seems impossible.
What changed?
COVID accelerated something but it did not create it. The intolerance, the mob mentality, the refusal to even consider another perspective. That was already there, waiting.
It just needed the right moment to take over.
We lost something important. The ability to think together, even when we don’t think alike.
And most people haven’t even stopped to notice.
And this is phrased very politely.
