The ninth and final post in my Blogging for the Holidays project. Just a little wrap-up post to tie a bow around the whole thing.đź“ť blog.b-ark.ca
@brettkosinski I have enjoyed reading a couple of your posts - I hope that reentry to the grind has been kind.
I particularly liked this comment in Grappling with Misinformation
"But deep down I think there’s something more fundamental going on: I think people find themselves frustrated and bewildered by a world we don’t understand, and so they’re looking for certainty and simplicity in an increasingly uncertain, complicated, and rapidly changing world."
@qldnick Thanks for bringing up that post. I hadn’t read it. I think Brett is on to something. The Make America Great Again is something that certainly can resonate with you if all the uncertainty and perceived uncertainty of today’s rapidly changing world makes you feel disconnected and forgotten about. I think one of the things people don’t consider, is that this happened to a large extent before also, except we didn’t hear or read about it. I don’t know what the solution for the broken trust and sense of not belonging is. I hope it doesn’t take a war, or shutting down the internet*. @brettkosinski
*) It’s worth it if it cures the problem.
@qldnick Thanks so much for the kind words! I will admit, as the new year has begun, the idea of a sabbatical has become increasingly attractive...
It seems to me (in my little corner of the world in sunny Australia) that part of the problem is the thrust toward divisiveness. Bridges between ideas and thoughts and beliefs are not being built, but they are being guarded. Which makes it even more difficult to cross from one side to the other.
Questions based on 'this or that', 'what is your opinion' (on matters that you probably have little right having an opinion on), and the accessibility of the broader network of knowledge (internet) don't help. Comment sections on fb are a dumpster fire with an eternal fuel source. Thoughtful and well-reasoned insights seem to be paywalled or produced in non-accessible lanuage (i.e. academic speak). The answer for me has been to want to know more and go looking for nuanced discussion and a range of views.
I concur absolutely, war and censorship can't be the answers!