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Terry's avatar

Believe you are correct. I am experiencing this phenomenon on a regular basis. Whether at my sportsman club or home owners association. Some individuals choose to only believe what they think/say. They loose the interesting concept of listening and possibly enriching their lives .

Some social media sites are bully pulpits (opinion).

Terry

Judy Rees's avatar

When people only choose to believe what they, themselves, think, that can quickly turn into bullying. We recently had an instance of this in a sports club I belong to - and it almost destroyed the club. Clubs can't really function when someone is demanding that everyone accepts their opinion as literal truth.

Is that why the divine right of kings bit the dust, I wonder?

Steve McCann's avatar

Obama recently quoted that the arc of justice is long. The meaning I make from that is that the jurisdiction of injustice is equally long, which is not good. But that it is finite. And there is a change in trajectory that starts to work towards justice, and for me that can stretch to include a kind of humane equity where our curiosity can help us understand each other - not to all think the same, but to at least understand, and from there at least co exist or even co create, learn and grow, and drain the swamp of hate inducing dialogue. Maybe this thought can help to start to bend that arc. Share it.

Judy Rees's avatar

And drain the swamp. WKO drain?

Jack Ricchiuto's avatar

The kind where people expand the vocabulary of their distinctions beyond the extremes. People have realities they have language for. That's why the work you're doing is so vital.

Trevor Leahy's avatar

Oh my goodness Judy, you are so correct. I’m shocked at how my notifications around interactions on linked In have dropped off a cliff. What kind of platforms are there to help us build trusted relationships on subjects we wish to drill down into. I’m changing how I drive the quality material I wish to digest through email notifications once more, for example your newsletter pointing to this Substack article.

Judy Rees's avatar

"What kind of platforms" is a really interesting one. I'm currently experimenting with a hyperlocal BlueSky feed https://www.richmondyorkshire.co.uk/snippets which is working well as far as it goes - but without a system to remind people it's there (this is currently being done by very active human advocates), will probably always tend to lose out to algorithm-driven platforms

And that's part of the trouble. We're used to being constantly nudged by the machine. Actively going out to look for stuff is harder

Jack Ricchiuto's avatar

I'm not interested in the corporate social media game that favors the nuance desert of binaries. If business not as usual is possible, it will be because more and more clean language literates are commenting and posting the nuances we need for human intelligence.

Judy Rees's avatar

@Jack I'm curious. Is there anything else about "business not as usual"?