Intelligent public discussion of ideas is difficult in our current situation. A few large media, internally structured as highly authoritarian organizations and wielding global power through their mastery of mid-twentieth century technologies, define The Issues, and almost all of us accept those terms and coerce any ideas we handle into support for one side or another of one issue or another.
All ideas reduce to issues, all issues reduce to politics, and politicians are notoriously cynical.
The introduction of pseudonymity into the range of options may help. By separating personality from any particular person, a pseudonym averts ad hominem responses to ideas. When an idea is presented pseudonymously, that kind of reductionist response is difficult to support or defend. Any response must be to the articulated idea. Pseudonymous discourse may also help us avoid labelling.