Social Consensus

Social media has fundamentally changed the way we connect with our families, friends and colleagues. What's more is that this connection almost seamlessly extends across the entire planet, allowing us to interact with thousands of groups and communities from nearly all walks of life. We believe this advancement and new social dynamic has created an interesting challenge for humanity.

Socialization is the general idea that we all acquire values and behaviors in our own ways. Family, cultural traditions, religion, local community, etc. all have a significant impact in this regard. This aspect of individuals and societies seems to have clashed with the advancements of the internet, which in turn seems to have had a significant impact on individuals and societies and how we interact. In a sense, the massive influx of dynamic information and communication has created a tremendous pressure on individuals and societies to reconcile differences in socialization-based values across various groups and how we interpret the real-world. 

Over time, we believe, this may normalize as the internet becomes more and more integrated into the socialization process. However, we also believe that we can improve this process as it stands today and in time to come. Common Stance aims to leverage a notion of "Social Consensus", the idea that individuals and communities can have logical and evidence driven online discourse that will support, both, understanding and achieving measurable consensus on pertinent topics which should lean towards the evidence.