Live Metanoia

One of our biggest failures with social media and technology is our ability to upgrade our apps, our phones, and everything else for our convenience but we downgrade our humanity and interpersonal relationship skills.

We have lost the ability to deal with in person confrontation because it has become so easy to block and delete people on a cell phone or on a computer that we do not know how to deal with confrontation in real life. It’s easy to comment and pick fights with a keyboard but you can’t have a talk to someone about a problem to their face.

How many times have you been in public and you see people on their phones mindlessly scrolling, liking, sharing, and commenting on something but they cannot engage another person in conversation.

How many times have you heard or read about the rise of social anxiety, or anxiety in general, because people have lost the ability to deal with any pressure situations in person.

This is due to our leaps in advancements of technology and our addiction to social media that we are negatively affecting our own development.

We have digitized everything from now working from home to Tele-health calls with your doctor or a dentist because we think our advancement in technology makes it better. It’s more convenient. However we are missing vital communication and understanding through face to face, personal conversation.

We have lost the ability to engage with others who have a different opinion than us or who may think differently from us. We have adopted this ‘us or them’ mentality that has been perpetuated by all the algerhythms of social media and news media in general that when someone has a different opinion from you that makes them an automatic enemy when that is not the case.

The ability to have a healthy debate, the ability to communicate efficiently and actually listen to another person, and the ability to critically think unbiasedly or judge or play the devils advocate when it comes to a situation you may not agree with has decreased in the population so rapidly that all we can do is immediately judge one another on whether or not they are like you or they aren’t.

We are rapidly losing the ability to become well-rounded human beings by generations. We are falling to each side of an extreme spectrum with no in between, no middle ground, and that is creating such a divisive environment that we are not able to get along with one another any longer.

And I’m so tired of the political trash. I’m tired of the liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican nonsense that people keep trying to push in every day life. Human decency should span across political parties yet it falls horrifically short. There shouldn’t be a left or right version of what it means to be a good and decent human being. Loving one another doesn’t have a blue or red side. It’s universal.

What has gone wrong in our country that we are to the point that we now categorize people between being red and blue instead of being a good or bad person? Political affiliation is not synonymous with being a good person.

Where do we drawl the line? Where to do we decide we have had enough. Where do parents choose to make the hard decision and take their toddlers iPad or iPhone away because it’s literally rotting their brain and making them addicted to media faster than a crackhead in a shady alleyway?

When do we stop blaming others for our short comings? When to come to one another with open hearts and open minds.

Aren’t you tired of it to?

My journey continues

Kaycee