social media
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Everyone is using the pandemic, election, climate change, or any and every other issue… to get attention for themselves. Everyone is a politician now. Continue reading
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A Crack Appears
He considered himself a painter,.. but not an artist. Being an artist did not pay: each brush stroke invites a person to be offended; each choice of color risks being cancelled on social media. If a person wanted to eat,… Continue reading
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The Pipe Dream
I was walking down a main street in the 1950’s Midwest. I went into a place and stopped at a folding table at the entrance. Behind it sat a young woman who looked at me with pleasant expectancy. The place… Continue reading
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An Evolving Process
The very nature of social media pressures and encourages people to react without structure or reasoned thought. Strong, sustainable communities cannot be built without structure or reasoned thought. (Some have argued, that back in the 60’s Ken Kesey was part… Continue reading
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We Owe You Nothing
Consensus is often used as just another word for orthodoxy. Orthodoxy is good when there is no vision of something better. Trouble appears on the horizon when orthodoxy becomes the excuse for assertiveness and abuse, regardless of facts or reason.… Continue reading
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Social Perspective
Trying to be right is not the same thing as trying to get attention. In fact, a group of people trying to be right will interact differently and form a different social structure than a group of people trying to… Continue reading
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