Do all musicians you listen to have the same political views as you?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

BRTD, part of developing a mature and well-rounded ideology, or mature and well-rounded opinions in general, is recognizing not only that other people's views differ from yours, but recognizing why they differ from yours, so that, if you continue to reject them, you do so from a position of good faith and mutual understanding. One way of doing this is by consuming media produced by people with different perspectives on the world. I read Dostoyevsky not because I'm a nineteenth-century Slavophile but (among other reasons) because I'm interested in how nineteenth-century Slavophilia operated. Flannery O'Connor wasn't great on race (although she wasn't as terrible as the title of 'The Artificial [redacted]' would imply out of context), but she's my favorite American writer because her attitudes are revelatory about Christianity, mental and physical illness, and modern American life in general--Wise Blood in particular is weirdly similar to Update in some respects. And so on and so forth.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I know I already made this point more extensively in an earlier post in this thread, but nobody seems to have cared about it, so I'll condense it to a sound bite: Cultivating a confirmation bias on purpose is really, really unseemly and absolutely pointlessly limiting.