Maybe you wonder why I've taken a picture of a lemon to illustrate this post...
For me lemons remind me of a very nice period in my life when I had the feeling that everything was about interaction.
Why I associate a lemon with interaction
After I finished high school and the compulsory military service in Switzerland, I didn't feel ready to continue my professional path. The miliatary service had quite a bad impact on me and I needed something new. I came up with the idea to go 3 months to spain to learn the language. I left Switzerland and with no spanish knowledge at all, I travelled to El Puerto de Santa Maria in the southern provinz of Anadalusia.
It was such a beautiful place and every morning I walked 30 minutes from the house of my host family to the language school in the historic center of the town. This school had a big Patio, an interior garden and in this garden there was a huge lemon tree. I've spent hours around this tree in deep conversation and debates with people from all over the world. This is why the lemon is for me a kind of symbol for talking and exchanging. This was a real highlight.
We need to exchange more and come together in thoughts and discussions
I realized that with the development of the internet, people where more and more finding interaction in areas that supported their own line of thoughts. We go to the places where we hear what we want to hear and this makes us believe that everybody thinks like us. This makes it difficult to understand people that have actually a different point of view. I believe that this translates into a lack of tolerance and understanding.
Building your opinions
I think it is necessary that we try to interact with people that do not share our thoughts or beliefs. I find in challenging to talk with others and to try to understand their point of view without judging. I think it is also important to keep a certain open mind and to maybe evaluate if the other persons opinion has some truth in it.
The secret is to keep it civilised
On social media platforms, I often see that people don't try to listen to others and prefer to ridiculise them and their line of thought. Why can't we interact in a civilised way with people who think differently? I believe it is because we are not used to it anymore. That is why I believe we should interact more, especially with people who share other thoughts than we do.
If we believe that we are always right, how can we learn anyhting at all? We learn from the others, from reading them, from listening to them and from evaluating their message and maybe from adopting part of it...
Let's interact more on this blockchain, let's do it in a civilised way and let's learn from the others. Let's do in a way that respects their beliefs and their integrity.
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Awesome post, my friend!
I will not be a good person for a discussion with you as I agree with everything that you said in this post! 🙂
A lot of people aren't actually interested at all to HEAR other's opinions, because of different reasons... Maybe they think that they are always in right, but maybe they weren't taught to listen at all... I very often stop and take a look at children... a lot of them didn't listen to their parents, don't care about anything outside their mobile phones...
And the worst thing of all is that majority of the people are lazy to think... Or, they are so occupied about some stupid things on TV, hypnotized by it and "sleeping" all their lives...
Luckily, we have great examples, also, as you are, and it's our duty to keep "thinkers" in our circle of close friends... And I'm glad that I have found you... ;)
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Of course it is also nice to exchange thoughts with people who share the same opinions ;-).
Most of the time when I talk with people, I can't help to notice that most of their opinions have been picked up somewhere and are just repeated. I miss to see people evaluating different point of views and creating their own opinion. This can lead to very dangerous things. Let's say a country leader says something that is totally untrue. Then people just take it for a fact. This can lead people dying because they drank desinfectants ....
Thanks a lot for your great comment!
Best regards,
Achim
that's exactly what I meant by saying for some people to be "hypnotized"... lol... I would say that is a kind of laziness.. doesn't want to think at all, just do repeat...
Cheers!
Is HVOTE in hive engine too?
Hi @paragism,
We haven't created the token on Hive. It is quite expensive to create a token and the token on steem-engine didn't have that much demand. But who knows if people are interested we might duplicate this token on Hive.
Ok. It looks interesting. How is it different from basic income?