I specifically try to read and view things that makes me uncomfortable. Not all the time, that would be exhausting, but as often as I can. However, I filter on an different criteria: Do the statements come with any kind of explanation? If you tell me "facts" I might try to store them under "X thinks this", but will have a really hard time recalling it later. If you tell me "because of this, then that" I can retrieve it later with much greater success. The real breakthrough for me was to not feel any urge to decide if what I hear is likely to be true. I save that only for when I absolutely have to. It saves me from hours of fruitless debates and frustration. This might be a useless attitude for an activist, but I am old with precious little time left and have acquired enough experience to believe that any real contribution to a better world I can offer at this stage in life is simply and honestly to use the word "why?"
Loved this. It's hard to show up on here and deliberately post things that won't be that popular whe you know exactly what you could do to pander to the audience... but then, like, what's the point of doing any of this? If we do that, this place becomes just another numbers game, the thing we've been trying to escape. I felt very bolstered by reading this.
Anyone can throw chum in the water and attract fish. Speaking truth is its own reward.
I specifically try to read and view things that makes me uncomfortable. Not all the time, that would be exhausting, but as often as I can. However, I filter on an different criteria: Do the statements come with any kind of explanation? If you tell me "facts" I might try to store them under "X thinks this", but will have a really hard time recalling it later. If you tell me "because of this, then that" I can retrieve it later with much greater success. The real breakthrough for me was to not feel any urge to decide if what I hear is likely to be true. I save that only for when I absolutely have to. It saves me from hours of fruitless debates and frustration. This might be a useless attitude for an activist, but I am old with precious little time left and have acquired enough experience to believe that any real contribution to a better world I can offer at this stage in life is simply and honestly to use the word "why?"
Loved this. It's hard to show up on here and deliberately post things that won't be that popular whe you know exactly what you could do to pander to the audience... but then, like, what's the point of doing any of this? If we do that, this place becomes just another numbers game, the thing we've been trying to escape. I felt very bolstered by reading this.