Perhaps I missed it, but I feel like an important aspect is being left out of this article. For the average person, English is not their native language. [1]<p>However, it is also becoming the 'lingua franca' of science and the leading edge of technology - that is, even if it is only a second language, people are spending a lot of time thinking in it. As someone who is not a native English speaker, I am very often lost for words when expressing certain ideas in my own mother tongue (someone will helpfully point out that it is possible I didn't learn my own language very well, which might also be true), <i>especially</i> when communicating concepts like privacy and such.<p>This leads to a gap - the number of ideas and concepts that can be expressed by the average person in their native language is less than the number of ideas and concepts that can be expressed in a non-native language, assuming the non-native language is English. Correspondingly, it is possible your brain is just that little bit more open and receptive to ideas, and sort of turns down its emotional reaction a little bit.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...</a>