I don't share this for the "LOLs", this being the now-deleted tweet of an unwell man.
I share this for the Great Big Cultural Sad of our discourse having been driven in recent years by people who never had the chops for anything more than "thought-leading" by playing into fear and hatred.
How do we come back from an era of "public intellectual" grifters? How do we recenter dialogue that encourages better critical thinking, knowledge exchange, and democratic practices?
And can we do it online?
it's going to require a cultural renewal from the roots. that's the energy pushing forward, which is being widely recognized subconsciously, the emergence of a new level of consciousness.
it's terrifying to those whose identity will have to be radically altered and who have everything invested in them.
that's why they're clinging to tfg. he's the devil they know.
online? we can talk about it, but the transformation is not in language first. so, no.
as a good philosopher once said, "there's always another hand", so here's one.
perhaps we can help online by passing along knowledge of what's occurring
as well as the mindfulness and other meditative methods for allowing the new expressions of the archetypes to be integrated into consciousness widely and rapidly?
@holon42
You're hinting at something that builds on @NiveusLepus's point about education:
The current cultural models treat education as something that occurs at but one point of our lives - and then we're very much taught to see ourselves as more or less finished products (or failed products) after formal schooling.
But as you note, social change behooves us to be ready for paradigm shifts, too. Openness to relearning, unlearning, and general exploration are a must all throughout our lives.