I get contrarian sometimes (online moreso than in person), and I honestly don't know how to turn it off. I guess I've gotten a little better about it but in the past it's sometimes felt like the more I talk to people from one side the more inclined I am towards the opposite. It took me a while to come around to the idea of "left unity" even being a desirable thing at all. I feel like maybe part of it was growing up privileged and book smart and thinking that my opinions and thoughts mattered for their own sake. In reality, being able to share your knowledge with others or bring them around to your point of view is often just as important as being right in the first place. I don't know. I guess there's something to that Marx quote, "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Kinda easier said than done 😕