"There is no opinion that you have. You have the opinion that they want you to have".
Who are "they" you ask? Well, "they" are all the people that can benefit from you engaging on their platform. Eg: Social media platforms, ecommerce platforms, content aggregators, etc.

It appears that there is no more unpolarized content out there. Everything is tailor-made for your liking. Reinforce what you like and filter what you don't. This "bubble" can really be damaging; it increases your polarized thinking even more.

You love manual cars? A handful of content explaining why manual cars are better pop up on your feed. Even worse, a lot more content on why electric & automatic cars are dogsh*t pops up too. Apparently, spreading negativity is much easier.

This is bad. When you can't get contradictions to what you believe, then you'll be even more polarized towards what you believe. It is quite hard to keep an open mind when every platform is trying to catch you inside an "echo chamber".

An echo chamber is an environment where a person only encounters information or opinions that reflect and reinforce their own. For things like politics and global issues, polarized content can make you lean to one side without you even realizing it. Reports say that echo chambering had a huge role in electing Donald Trump as the President of America.

You see how powerful this is? It is almost as if someone can decide what opinion other people should have. Nuanced thinking is required to break free of this. But learning to think in a nuanced way is difficult, and will take a lot of practice.

I wish there was some way to remove at least some echo chambers out there.