or even stop… We are slaves to a thought, idea, or opinion until we decide to make a change away or towards it… Question is: are we moving in the right direction? Social media platforms aren’t designed for context… Unless there is a serious debate being pursued, which usually is not the case – most of the time everyone is claiming they are right and anyone with an opposing thought is loopy…Īll this is our own fault: what we permit, what we tolerate, we can’t change. Notice context has nothing to do with where most of us will categorize what we hear (and for some, even say)… There are some that WILL question the context of what they are hearing or reading, however the majority will see how it all fits into their current belief system and then either junk it, judge it, and for the most part walk away from it… Most everyone does - but what if that idea, content, keeps coming back and keeps building? Keep this in thought for a moment… Think this through – some of you are already palming your head into your hand wondering why you are reading this… Or have we forgotten about Galileo? Hitler? Freud? Pol Pot? Mao Tsé-Tung? Or many other situations where the ‘truth’ was suddenly not the truth?… Now the true and false qualifies are also relative – so where does something become real and something become false? Because we said so? Hardly… Because many people say so and we have heard repeatedly that one thing is true and the other is false? Hardly… A false belief - as it goes against either of the above 2….A new belief - which usually occurs when we keep hearing something often enough to finally accept it (a trick sales and politics relies heavily upon), or.A true belief - especially if it is a voice we listen to often, a counsel we pursue, or even a hero we admire….What we have read and/or heard usually falls into 1 of 3 categories… Whether we are debating, conversing, sharing thought(s) or opinion(s), content as well as context matters. But did he share his opinion(s)? Or his thought(s)? That’s not the focus of this post – either way, it was obvious to someone who knew their history very well knew the points being brought up were valid but they were also way out of context… Making his comment basically worthless to any level of integrity… My friend’s post was of a political nature - which, being a social media platform, caught the attention of a 3rd party who shared his thoughts as well…. Truthfully, I sometimes envy him as he can see humor in something I can’t (and then do, thanks to his sharing). We both have similar as well as countering ideas and he does maintain a humorous disposition on top of keeping an open mind. And given the amount of information available to us doubles every 60 hours, what does that really say about us? Could it be the quality of the information being added is equivalent to junk and trash? Or is it we are just settling for what feels and sounds good to the situation at hand as well as the current argument (meaning we have abandoned virtues, principles, and integrity)?…Īnd maybe, just maybe… many of us just don’t test our beliefs well enough to discern all this? In a quick note sent to a friend on a social media platform, I provided some counterpoints to a post he had on his account. Knowing the full context of the content we use as well as discerning why decisions were made they way there were in that context is fast becoming a lost skill. Knowing the Content Does Not Equate to Knowing the Context
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