I want to address the polarisation of society with this thread.
I've had conversations recently with people who are fist thumpingly angry. This includes my own family. I'm equally fist thumpingly angry that those people don't see the world the way I do.
Does that sound familiar ?
I don't want to rant here about the way I see the state of things.
I want to talk about the anger and the frustration and the "completely f*****g HAD IT with the world" that so many people with so many different points of view are experiencing. It seems meltdown is within inches of breaking out even in places like America and England. *Balkanisation is only a hair away, given the right trigger.
It dawned on me this morning, after having a sleep on a conversation I had last night, that the internal anger etc in all these different people is identical. It's all the same anger and exasperation, once you go deep and look at it without the mental furniture we express it with.
At that level, I'm sure we are all on the same page. 'Something', is equally driving us all nuts and pushing our buttons. The divisions arise not there but in the space between there and the social surface of our lives. It's our individual interpretations of the deeper feeling that divide us. That is all about the qualities of the information we individually have and the qualities of the processes we use to make sense of that information.
What I see, is a current world where we are clotting into societal lumps within their own echo chambers or feedback loops. It's not hard to see what it does to us, but the question in my mind that prompted this thread is;
Is this a deliberate tactic being used upon us, or is it just an unfortunate byproduct of the process of scaling up village and family socialisation to a global cyber web scale ?
Feel free to expand the questions, observations and, maybe, answers.
*Balkanisation, is a geopolitical term used to describe the process of fragmentation or division of a region or state into smaller regions or states that are often hostile or uncooperative with one another.