My ballot arrived today, which means it's now possible for me to cast my vote (on everything-the presidential race is unlikely to be either as affected by or as affecting to me as the other races and issues; we just seem to be having a nationwide, media-fueled cultural seizure over it) and consider my civic duty done. This seems much easier than
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What gets hard for me is that we're now so connected to one another, yet we still use our "outside voices" in the dialogue (such as it is). I want to tell my fellow citizens, "I can hear you. So can almost everyone else. I don't want to stifle anyone's freedom of expression, but we really don't need to keep shouting and repeating the same things. Just because we don't agree doesn't mean we don't hear each other."
That desire to be heard is sometimes overpowering, especially when it doesn't take into account our super-connected society. We need to stop hammering on each other and flooding the channels with opinion and information if we're going to be good neighbors. Basically, we could all do better at exercising both respect and good editing.
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i love it.
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The short version of said mini-soapbox: I get why people don't think there's a difference between the two (or why they may think that difference goes in the opposite direction). I disagree with them, but I get it. And since I get it, they (and I) can probably turn down the volume.
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