For Telling

As I have said in the past:

Tell me what you are for, and I will know what you are against. Tell me what you are against, and that is all I will know....

So tonight I wonder, with such ease and convenience, if social media, being used with so little discretion and being conducive to creating disproportionate levels of misdirected anger along with an endless cycle of perpetuating increasingly overwhelming amounts of misinformation, isn't as a result creating a fear based, confused culture prone to cynicism and apathy.

A culture inclined to simply shrug it's shoulders and walk away, disbelieving and demotivated to discern what is and isn't real anymore.

After all, it takes a lot of energy to be angry, and when we find out our energies are for naught we become decreasingly enthusiastic to engage again.

So why do we waste  the energy we can muster on stupid bullshit that ultimately doesn't matter... for instance which people like Starbucks cups and which groups don't. Protesting the protesters.

As much as people would like to fool themselves into thinking otherwise, simply clicking the share button doesn't really affect much (if any) change in the world toward a cause. It's not really action, it's information.

Nothing actually happens.

That is of course, nothing beyond the guilt relieving feelings of having done something as a result of sharing the thoughts of others rather than formulating our own thoughts.

However what can happen with the content of what we share is the resulting  positive or negative impact on the people we would call friends and who otherwise might (or might not) go on to affect change in the world for the greater good.

So, if somehow your real, your actual life affords you the energy for action beyond that much, why not direct it toward the bigger battles.

The ones that actually matter.

In the end, it seems to me that very few things in life truly matter all that much. But those things in life that do matter, matter infinitely.

Be good to yourselves, and of greater importance, be good to eachother.

Solo Cristo Salva,

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