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Paying a little attention to the news on the regular broadcast channels, as well as daily and fortuitous personal interactions, I notice that there is always an almost omnipresent need. The message may already be quite important, but on top of that same message, phrase or news item, there is often, if not constantly, the need to make it even more dramatic, strong, emotional, disruptive, fracturing, exacerbated...
And where did this relatively recent habit come from? Is it a response to a need created by those who consume the news, or by those who listen to others, or even by those on the other end of a cell phone or email?
Most likely. Transmitting a message clearly and free of what I would say are almost or completely unnecessary additions is a real rarity these days.
Wouldn't it be worth returning to a more balanced model, in which the real message is broadcast, written or read, clearly? Wouldn't it be more beneficial for all parties to start listening (instead of just hearing), interpreting (instead of just reading), thinking (instead of just reacting)?
Why is it that when we like something, we make overly flattering comments, and the opposite also happens? Shouldn't we be clearer in our message?
If you think about it, language is the way the world knows us. Our actions speak for us too, of course. But first and foremost, if someone is tough-talking and rude, they're unlikely to think we're kind or friendly without knowing our actions or dealing with us in a way that gives them the opposite idea to what our speech conveys.
Are we afraid that others won't like us as much if we're not more in line with their ideas and principles? Do we then feel the need to go to extremes in order to feel closer to them? Or could it be that the hyper-need to assert ourselves in the face of an increasingly polarized society makes us want to choose, and show it in a marked way, what color we want: black or white, or zero or one? Can't we choose light gray or darker, and can't we be 0.676?
The need to label people, acts, parties and groups means that there is no time to reflect on the real message they are sending us. And that message, unfortunately, may even be contrary to their first speech.
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STOPThis is a question I often ask myself. We seem to have created a world in which the extremes are the main thing that gets noticed, but the vast majority of us live closer to somewhere in the middle... but that is just not newsworthy.
It feels as if all of life has turned into a scary version of "clickbait."
There are so many people out there anymore that are so polarized that they won't accept anything but what they think. I often avoid politics altogether with them because it's not worth the headache. I understand exactly what your saying, people are more polarized than ever and social media has had a big part in that...