Please stop the hate.
Without a major catalyst for change the changes of stopping hate seems like a very dim prospect. If I was in a tunnel the light at the end of it might as well be flickering before burning out with a pop.
I was poking about on Reddit in BestOf because sometimes there are neat things there. I ended up in a thread in WorldNews where someone had linked an article about a new facility in Sweden for male rape victims. Without even reading the article but starting with the comment nominated for BestOf and reading onward from there...the hate. Oh the hate. It makes me sad.
Unless we can ovecome our differences and our hate how can we ever hope for world peace? If we ever need to be globally unified it'll be a tenous alliance at best.
So many people thinking small picture. Maybe some of that is being selfish, they want issues that matter to them or directly impact them addressed. Instead of looking at the larger picture and seeing what's wrong with the system and impacting a variety of people and working hard on creating a better alternative that improves things for multiple parties they instead clamour, "MEMEMEME!"
Resulting in hostility, of differing degrees, whether intended or not, from other parties that did not get a fix, or may have been negatively impacted by the "fix", or who won't get even an attempted solution for a long time. It may be shrugged off as not feasible, or "not that big of an issue", or that this is just a "small" fix, or that the "rest of the system works fine", or any of the other countless excuses we make for not doing things. Maybe the people in charge aren't aware of the other issues, or aren't enlightened enough, or never thought about what it's like for other people. Sadly that can happen with privilege.
With our increased interconnectedness and ability to rabble-rouse on social media we are very much people of now. We want something done and we want it done yesterday. (May I borrow your police call box, Delorean, or phone booth, please?) Our insistence on getting as close to instant gratification on things that require significant amounts of planning and forethought encourage less effective solutions which may not help all parties and that will need redressing in the nearer term instead of improving things for everyone for the longer term.
As much as I'd like to be able to come up with those improvements which will benefit all of society there is only so much that you can do with laws and policy and ultimately how useful is it really going to be if we don't address the root of the problem? Humans. That's the real issue. I can't tell you to be better and have it be so. I can't make you improve yourself or others for the betterment of all of civilization.
I really would like to make things better. Social problems seem like such a valuable place to make a difference. Who cares if your ideas improved UI for some company's website, or changed how your business operated or made money? That's not a legacy I could be proud of. I'd rather do something that made a meanful difference on a large scale. Something that really makes the world a better place and not just for today but for tomorrow and all the days after. Something that could help us all be better human beings.
Why is it one of the things I'd really like to do, that I'd work hard to do, to ensure it benefits everyone, is one of those nigh on "impossible" dreams?
I was poking about on Reddit in BestOf because sometimes there are neat things there. I ended up in a thread in WorldNews where someone had linked an article about a new facility in Sweden for male rape victims. Without even reading the article but starting with the comment nominated for BestOf and reading onward from there...the hate. Oh the hate. It makes me sad.
Unless we can ovecome our differences and our hate how can we ever hope for world peace? If we ever need to be globally unified it'll be a tenous alliance at best.
So many people thinking small picture. Maybe some of that is being selfish, they want issues that matter to them or directly impact them addressed. Instead of looking at the larger picture and seeing what's wrong with the system and impacting a variety of people and working hard on creating a better alternative that improves things for multiple parties they instead clamour, "MEMEMEME!"
Resulting in hostility, of differing degrees, whether intended or not, from other parties that did not get a fix, or may have been negatively impacted by the "fix", or who won't get even an attempted solution for a long time. It may be shrugged off as not feasible, or "not that big of an issue", or that this is just a "small" fix, or that the "rest of the system works fine", or any of the other countless excuses we make for not doing things. Maybe the people in charge aren't aware of the other issues, or aren't enlightened enough, or never thought about what it's like for other people. Sadly that can happen with privilege.
With our increased interconnectedness and ability to rabble-rouse on social media we are very much people of now. We want something done and we want it done yesterday. (May I borrow your police call box, Delorean, or phone booth, please?) Our insistence on getting as close to instant gratification on things that require significant amounts of planning and forethought encourage less effective solutions which may not help all parties and that will need redressing in the nearer term instead of improving things for everyone for the longer term.
As much as I'd like to be able to come up with those improvements which will benefit all of society there is only so much that you can do with laws and policy and ultimately how useful is it really going to be if we don't address the root of the problem? Humans. That's the real issue. I can't tell you to be better and have it be so. I can't make you improve yourself or others for the betterment of all of civilization.
I really would like to make things better. Social problems seem like such a valuable place to make a difference. Who cares if your ideas improved UI for some company's website, or changed how your business operated or made money? That's not a legacy I could be proud of. I'd rather do something that made a meanful difference on a large scale. Something that really makes the world a better place and not just for today but for tomorrow and all the days after. Something that could help us all be better human beings.
Why is it one of the things I'd really like to do, that I'd work hard to do, to ensure it benefits everyone, is one of those nigh on "impossible" dreams?