Gender War, Technology, and De-Centering the Self

Genuine encounters with others shape us. So what happens when they don't happen?

It seems to me that the capacity to believe you could be wrong about something—in other words, the capacity to cultivate humility—is greatly strengthened by genuine encounters with other people, and is greatly weakened through the absence of such encounters. By “genuine encounters” I mean something both general and specific. A genuine encounter with ano…