We’ve arrived at a very interesting point in our evolution as a cultural species.
Having more or less solved our existential problems – food, shelter, companionship, we’re hard at work towards building ‘self esteem’.
Putting it in Abraham Maslow’s terms, a good portion of the humankind – most of those active on the internet, the netizens, have reached the ‘self-actualization’ stage.
The problem being that we’re so preoccupied with ‘expressing our true selves’ that almost nobody listens anymore. Truly listens…
The kind of listening needed when we try to learn something. To understand what’s going on.
As opposed to the listening used when educating somebody.
When attempting to learn, we listen opening our minds. We let information in and structure it afterwards.
When educating people, our listening is focused. We take information in with the sole goal of detecting dissent – in order to stifle it, and openings to exploit in our quest to implant our opinion about the world in the minds of our ‘targets’.
Take a breath.
And exhale carefully not to inflate another bubble.
There are already a lot of them waiting to burst.
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