(July 1, 2017 at 5:04 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: The problem is not free speech.
I am free to state anything I want.
The problem derives from whom is or is not listening or paying attention.
This is a loaded start. Point of view matters and since everyone has a different point of view, clarity and ideas being definable and distinct, as to have the ability to compare it to data beyond personal bias, it seems this is just an expression of your own frustrations. Competing sides get frustrated with the other. So the real question is, what do we have beyond personal opinion that we can use to determine what facts are.
I am not myself defending free speech because I think everyone is right. I defend it for very pragmatic reasons having NOTHING to do with the people I disagree with. I think in terms of evolution. And evolution proves we are a social animal no matter what our personal bias are. We mostly as a species defend that which is local, and our parents sell us from birth. Knowing that old habits die hard, you have to pick your battles instead of projecting your own ideas on others.
The problem I see in our modern age is that we live in a quick satisfaction media. TV adds back in the 60s and 70s were 30 seconds or 60 seconds. Today TV adds can be as short as 10 seconds. We get marketed the idea that fast is good, and self entitlement, and that infects politics and religion and economic views too. The problem with our fast paced world is that our complex species as far as socializing and diversity cannot be summed up in 10, 15, 30 or 60 seconds.
Life is simple in the reality that all 7 billion of us are the same species, with the same evolutionary ability to be cruel or compassionate. The complexities we create in artificial constructs such as religion, political views and economic views are comic book labels that describe our REAL evolutionary drive to survive which requires resources.
Our modern fast paced society globally is what causes all sides to talk past each other.
