As mankind gets more and more involved in the so called “Information Age”, it becomes more evident that, far from being a critic & objective society based on facts, we are turning into polarized individuals.

The thing is that we only search for information that fits in our beliefs and standards.

Just go see any YouTube comment on any political video of Trump, Brexit, or Peña Nieto. There are a few documented, eloquent and impartial ones amongst pure rage between people who supports the subject and people who attacks it.

Unfortunately, we define ourselves by the things we hate, rather than the things we love.

And even when that’s the case, we search and support information that fits in our axioms. If some kind of information challenges our personal beliefs, we feel the urge to attack it, even if it’s based on a true fact.

Maybe that’s why we still believe in conspiracies, groups of jews making a plan of world domination, grey reptile-looking aliens, smoke curtains created in order to distract us from the misery of the world.

The bitter truth is, regardless the side we choose, the world will still have problems. The key is “discussion”. Far from being close-minded, and stay in our safe space, we should have the mental maturity of being challenged, to elaborate arguments in order to convince, never to impose them. And foremost, be clear on what a fact is and what an opinion is.

When it comes to opinion, no one is wrong. It makes a nest within ourselves, and it can be a double-edge blade. Facts, by the other hand, can fail and prove us how wrong we are, in order to make us better.

As the political animals –according to Aristotle– we are, we must have the responsibility to enrich our points of view and to say what is right and what is wrong with the natural light of common sense. We can’t stay in our safe space, even when some people have the urge to insult us. Bigotry mustn't have a place in our nowadays world. It never worked before, nor will it now.

European Council President Donald Tusk said it better than no one: “If we do not believe in ourselves, in the deeper purpose of integration, why should anyone else?”

Lack of discussion only can lead to hate, to divide people even more in this turmoil. And, of course, divided we fall.