so to speak, that directly appeared as an opposition party to what it perceives as a “Team Despair”,
I think this gets it backward. There were lots of optimisitc people that kept not understanding or integrating the arguments that you should be less optimistic, and people kept kinda sliding off really thinking about it, and finally some people were like “okay, time to just actually be extremely blunt/clear until they get it.”
(Seems plausible that then a polarity formed that made some people really react against the feeling of despair, but I think that was phase two)
I think this gets it backward. There were lots of optimisitc people that kept not understanding or integrating the arguments that you should be less optimistic, and people kept kinda sliding off really thinking about it, and finally some people were like “okay, time to just actually be extremely blunt/clear until they get it.”
(Seems plausible that then a polarity formed that made some people really react against the feeling of despair, but I think that was phase two)