Is it just a meme that people need talking points memos to have Thanksgiving conversations with their relatives, or do people really have that much anxiety about interactions with people outside their filter bubble? Or was it always this way and it was just less public?
@pganssle I have a variety of personal hypotheses here and one of them is that the subset of English-speaking US residents with at-least-mild social anxiety overlaps a lot with certain other sets of people in a way that leads to, among other things, certain internet usage patterns and certain kinds of articles getting shared a lot on social media
@brainwane It would be somewhat interesting to see numbers, and whether this is restricted to a specific subset.
If there weren't similar "cheat sheets" distributed among the politically active in the past, it's possible that there was an analogue among religious circles (e.g. "How to talk to your D&D playing nephew about Satan").
