@SeekingPlumb

Can we loosen our grip on the Ego & truly SEE each other?

To hold two contrary but true ideas in your head. At the same time, both sides think the other has fallen prey to conspiracy theories and propaganda. Both sides declare that they are using critical thinking. Somehow we're unified in this thinking. And yet perhaps we've never been more divided. There are definitely two sides to this political divide. There's so much us versus them thinking firm in our self righteousness. I wish there was more capital W. We quote, unquote thinking

If 2 contrary things can be true at the same time, why are we so self-righteous in our "rightness?"

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@MerTroutt
Meranda Troutt
@MerTrouttΒ Β·Β 0:08
Bravo, Bravo, literally. That's all I got to say. You said everything, and I adore you
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@SeekingPlumb

πŸ™πŸ»πŸ’™ 😊

Ah, thanks
@AskMarkWard
Mark Ward
@AskMarkWardΒ Β·Β 3:05

Gross oversimplification for today’s U.S. politics?

But I would suggest that it is difficult to argue that in today's climate it also deals with how one defines morality and ethics and who we in the United States say we are as a nation and how those platitudes are defined in terms of policy and the evidence that suggests that it is true or not true. Racism has a definition. Sexism has a definition. Misogyny has a definition. Homophobia has a definition. Lying has a definition
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@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreoΒ Β·Β 4:46
So as you were stating beautiful painting and you get ten people looking at it, what starts to happen is that I think maybe us being social creatures and we're not using this energy to survive in the wild anymore. Now we are surviving in the social ecosystem. So there is just this inherent need for us to protect ourselves and to defend ourselves. So we tend to put a lot of us into things that is kind of in some ways inappropriate
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@SeekingPlumb

Taking a few steps back. @AskMarkWard

I mean, it has been for decades, but it's sped up in recent years. I guess what I'm saying to be overly simplistic is can we remove those lenses of seeing each other only through a political perspective. Political labeling can we see each other as human instead of the enemy or evil? Polar opposite views will always exist, but they don't have to define us
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@SeekingPlumb

Shaping the Ego. @RatherSwell @GeorgieDee

Hey, Juan, thanks for the reminder. You know, despite Georgie D talking about and I'm sorry, Georgie. I know I'm not going to get the wording quite right, but despite this idea that we're cavemen moving through a modern world, I forget too often that some of that behavior is still with us that the need to conquer another person's idea to prove ours is superior to defend ourselves against a predator slush an enemy
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@MerTroutt
Meranda Troutt
@MerTrouttΒ Β·Β 2:10
And so we have, like that fight or flight reflex going on whenever it comes to being confronted about something that we don't agree with, something that we aren't personally okay with something that we don't believe in or we have very staunch. This is a no no about. And I just thought that was incredibly interesting. I don't know. Maybe somebody can find it. I don't remember much about it
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@dzakyem
Dzakye M
@dzakyemΒ Β·Β 1:54

General directions of candidates are clear!... / Debating rationally...

People may have fears, but yes, that's theirs. Do we need to meddle in a discussion where people are heated? Do we want to convince people who are not ready to change their mind because they are stubbornly emotional? You don't try to reason a barking dog can do you. You just keep off in order not to be bitten. And this political or this debate, this climate is certainly supported by the media. Who wants to make a show out of all that?
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@dzakyem
Dzakye M
@dzakyemΒ Β·Β 4:26

@RatherSwell Interesting anecdote! Ego...

I wonder if the ego is important. It depends on the definition. Certainly. But people should have dignity. Let's say that's the way I would phrase it, your dignity should be represented defended. But whenever somebody tries to take power over other people and to prove that he's better, I mean, that shows a lack of self respect, of sound feeling of self. It's difficult to define. But then, of course, you feel some distance from a person like that. Yes
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@AverageJoe
Average Joe
@AverageJoeΒ Β·Β 4:30
They'll cancel someone who did it published. So this disingenuous atmosphere that we're finding ourselves in, we have to abandon that before we can even hope to find this middle ground I think that's just my opinion, obviously. But that's the problem. I think we find ourselves in no one's being honest anymore. They are further thinking about what they're told to say rather than what they actually believe in what they actually feel and what they actually think. Yeah
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@SeekingPlumb

Thank you, @MerTroutt.

Good morning to you, too. Miranda. The information sounds familiar. Although this specific, like source doesn't, but I'm pretty sure I've heard something similar about the brain and confrontation. I just hadn't remembered. It's a great point to add. Here. Thank you
@SeekingPlumb

Tribalism. Critical thinking. @AverageJoe

And of course, that's where there's more muddy waters with respect to our perspective. I think what further taints things is tribalism. And I think that social media and media everywhere we find our sources of information for good or bad influences that the information highway has sort of become also the highway of disinformation. And there's so much out there now that it's very difficult sometimes to delineate the difference between the two
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@shammi
Shammi Mohamed
@shammiΒ Β·Β 4:58

Bad actors = media, social media

But yet I found so many people who started justifying that, and I didn't know what to make of it at that point. Rather as well. I'm in complete agreement. We as a species, have an innate desire to be validated, if at all, social media is a clear representation of that. Why do we care so much about the number of likes we get on a post? Right. An average. Joe, I think you hit on a very interesting point
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@shammi
Shammi Mohamed
@shammiΒ Β·Β 3:27

Critical thinking starts with consuming multiple viewpoints

But some things that I think you can really do to be more critical about things and really be fair, is really being open to all sorts of information to start with news. It is one of the reasons why I only get my news from the Google News web page, and the reason I do that is because it aggregates news by the issue and in every aggregate bucket. It puts in articles from a plethora of publications. Right
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@SeekingPlumb

New news program; "balance not bias." Can it deliver? @shammi

Just to add to your comments about the Newsweek consume, I recently heard that there is a new news program that's promising balance, not bias. I believe it's called News Nation, and it's supposedly something like 2 hours a night on the WGN America Network. I haven't seen it. It sounds intriguing, but I'm sort of of the opinion of I believe it when I see it
@tooshy
Caleb Paul
@tooshyΒ Β·Β 4:59

I am ecstaticlly fascinated by SeekingPlumb's post

Oh, my God, I'm really fascinated by this post. I'm kind of new here, but I saw this post, and I was really fascinated by it. And second, plump, when I was listening to what you said, it's like, there's a part of it. This is something that really kept my attention
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@SeekingPlumb

Love the imagery! 2D vs 3D vs 4D @tooshy

Welcome to Swell Tushy. At first I wasn't sure where you were going, but the way you continued to paint these pictures so intriguing, it made me think of sort of the differences between in a 2D drawing a 3D person and like I can't even wrap my head around 4D things I've read about them. I've heard them described, but it's still such a foreign concept, so thanks for replying and welcome to the world of swell
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