Ryan Gosling rates your Unpopular Opinions (youtube.com)
A couple years ago, videos started appearing where celebs read and respond to the most common Google prompts about them. They also 'read mean tweets'. Reaction YouTube videos have been a staple (which I never watched) of YouTube for several years. Recently, some shows have come up where the format is for famous people to give their 'unpopular' opinions, like that NY Subway one (Casablancas made headlines which I noted here last month for his opinion about Jews). ... Is this the product of feminization of Western Society, where hard, other-forcussed work/material is negated/criticized/sometimes attacked, and instead the focus is on subjective experience of the individual, how the individual feels about something, which in universities is 'soft' science, as we've seen in Cultural Anthropology trends and other humanities.
Is this the other side of the curve, where opinions seemed sort of unassailable, becaues unlike facts they can't be debated. But maybe they can, when the opinions become the matter to be argued over (their validity). Does the change in society happen when one opinion is just argued over by another opinion just because of preference of the majority (or politically powerful)? or do the opinion arguers resort to finding facts to support their argument (and thus bring facts back into vogue)?