June 29, 2018
Paying and Attention to the Destructive Discord of Discourse
Wow. If the shootings aren’t bad enough. Another terrible or terribly sick person (don’t know yet) shoots up a newspaper, killing five and damaging countless thousands. Within minutes, talking heads are blaming, castigating and repeating talking points. And then we shift into venomous divisiveness. But, that was yesterday and it was only a few people shot. What you got to top that???
There is a point at which salacious just isn’t anymore because we have seen and heard it before.
There is a point you get to when you disassociate from reality in order to protect yourself from pain, real or imagined or anticipated.
There is a point where rational thought and boundaries will be useless against a damaged populous and society that is sick from psychological trauma. The societal, collective brain can’t cope. The societal collective brain has been fed delusions for generations. The collective has a virus and has no ability to heal itself.
The social tectonics we feel are very real. Ever differing cultures, ideas, values, rules, laws and a thousand other forces pull and push like the plates of the earth’s crust. They erupt and shake and cause havoc and rain down molten rock and ash, destroying everything in its path.
Maybe if you aren’t in a cultural fault zone or active cultural volcano areas like California, the border, Chicago or NYC or a lot of urban decayed cities — If you aren’t in the hotspots, you may just feel the social twitching and wobble like stumbling and hopping on an atrophied broken leg just after they dropped the crutches. We are shedding boundaries at an alarming rate. We have run away from norms, values, and institutions that promotes goodness. Indoctrination has almost completely replaced education. Socially and culturally, we are not prepared for that sort of weight of our unintended consequences of absolute freedom of choice and action. We wobble under the strain and in some areas we fall. In some areas, we exploding in a paranoid psychotic rage.
We may not come through it unscathed or more refined, but we will adapt, just as we have for a very long time. I think it is time to move in a different direction. To those who still can let’s go.
I would like for those of reason to think about a few things while we go through it. Some thoughts and rules to put in place:
People are going to do what people want to do.
There are very bad people out there. If I want to smell garbage, I go to the dump.
There are some really good people out there. If I want to smell roses, I go to a rose garden.
Hang out with people that consistently demonstrate good and reasonable judgment. Hang out with people who bring smiles, laughter, love, and growth. Hang out with people who pour life into other people. AND, be one of those people.
Let the others go. You aren’t in charge of them. You aren’t responsible for them. You won’t change their minds. You won’t fix them. There are still enough professionals who get paid to deal with them. Let the professionals handle them.
AND while I am meddling…
You don’t need social media.
You don’t need cable news.
Separation from people and things creating some trepidation?? Is there some uneasiness just thinking about it? I bet you feel like you need to see, need to be in the know, need to be connected to some device. That sounds like an addiction. Feel like you need to save the world? That sounds like co-dependency. Scared of the future? Can’t sleep? avoidance places and situations for fear of being hurt? Reliving those sorts of situations??? That sounds like PTSD. Stop feeding it and get help if you need it. If you are in the early stage of any of these, STOP IT. Our society is, was, and will continue to be unhealthy, sick and traumatized, if we let it happen. REGARDLESS of what smart, good and healthy people do, THERE WILL STILL BE damaged, evil, unhealthy, rude, mean, selfish and just plain BAD people in the world.
Please, for the sake of everything happy, good and wonderful — STOP giving attention to idiots and the fringes of society. STOP supporting the media outlets that are destroying everything you know is good. STOP giving money to organizations that DON’T GIVE A RIP about you. STOP STOP STOP!!!
Want more happy and healthy?
START
hanging out with loving, caring, life-uplifitng folks
Yup, reduce the intake of substances and start the healthy intake and output (exercise, I know… not fun)
start doing the things that add to life like creating, writing, painting, singing, take a class just to learn. Volunteer, give back and be the example that you are looking to find.
Love God, Love People and serve.
Relax, you aren’t the savior of the world.
Wanna fight back? Let’s have fun and find an attorney.
The “news” (whatever the heck that is anymore) inundates us every possible second of the day with the most salacious, the most disgusting, the most vile, the most horrific, the MOSTEST, WHATEVEREST that gets EYEBALLS and EARLOBES aimed at their very lucrative content. The messages and content have no value, but the wallet two feet below your eyeballs certainly does have value… to the media folks and their advertisers.
I would like to say it early. They (fill in the blank with most anybody who has anything to do with MEDIA) — THEY are profiting on trauma, traumatizing and re-traumatizing people. That is a crime or at least should be. At the very least is is wrong & I believe it is a class action suit. Any lawyers out there who want to become rich and famous??
While we all wait on the settlement checks — Let’s take a trauma notification vacation. Turn it off. Turn it down. Put it away. I am busy being happy anyway.
Love y’all,
RAG