Infowars are so powerful, and we're so ill-prepared to meet them.
Yesterday, I was struck by how much media illiteracy reigns. How gullible we still are in every news cycle.
Is it genuine?
Or do people know full well what they're weaponizing?
That's the kind of despair infowars breed.
One no longer knows if one's neighbours are being honestly manipulated or eager participants in their own manipulation.
All one knows is that propaganda reigns, and has made the world unsafer yet again.
Anyway, good morning, and good Tuesday to all of you. ☕
We have *so* much psychological damage to address in the coming years.
But we're not going to heal overnight (if at all). And no coronal mass ejection is going to save us from problems online, alas.
All we can do is try not to be angry with ourselves and others for living through such stupid, cruel, and stressed-out times.
We're all doing the best we can. 🫂💛
@MLClark I've been learning a lot lately about the nature of impermanence and the "Eight Worldly Winds" Pleasure, Pain, Gain, Loss, Praise, Blame, Fame, Disrepute. They are opposite pairs. They form an eight spoke wheel, ever in motion.
The infowars, cling to parts of this cycle and cause pain, but that is where the impermanence comes in. For every night there is a dawn, and for every dawn there is a night. A brighter day of peace with our neighbors will come again...
@MLClark First we must endure the night, to see the light breaking on the horizon, but the night is not us, nor is the dawn or the day. We are all shaped by these things, and the choices we make. We are all connected. The pain we feel, can inspire us towards compassion. The frustration we feel, can drive us towards understanding.
With equanimity, we can find ways to compost the bad, and turn it into good soil, to grow beautiful flowers in the world, no matter our time.
You are not alone. ^_^