A few years back I was asked the question "would you rather be happy, or would you rather be right?". I realized how little could be gained from "right fighting", and how much was being lost. My need to be right closed down all communication.
It doesn't hurt when I am wrong the way I was afraid it would. Instead, defensiveness fades away from both sides and cooperation and teamwork begin(usually).
Mainstream News needs to incite controversy to get viewers.
My question is why people need and want the controversy. I don't get it.
I believe it was Abraham Lincoln who said "you can't lift yourself up by cutting the other man down".
One hope I have for actual changes in human thinking is the proliferation of alternative sources of news. Sources not owned by and funded by plutocrats.
I have said this before in comments, but I must say it again...
The only thing as strong as peoples desire to be free, is peoples desire to control.
Is this the reason groups of people from, SteemIt to Nations, to all humanity, cannot find consensus?
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