Miscellaneous
What do people hear? Sounds like a simple question but it is not. People's heads, their consciousness, is filled with the echoes of their troubles, as well as their victories, and their preconceived notions of the world around them. It is a big fog. When people come to be influenced, which is exactly what they are doing when they sit down to watch the news, attend political rallies, interact on social media and with others who share similar views, people are only able to make a little bit of space through that fog. Where they are then able to retain snippets of information, these snippets of information will usually connect with other snippets that they had previously internalized. This is partially part of what is known as confirmation bias, suffice it to say that people will bring with them beliefs of what they think is true, it doesn't matter whether it is true or not because when they have determined in their mind that something is true, that belief becomes internalized, it gets crystalized. When we internalize a belief we cling to it, like it it's a part of us, like a physical appendage. Part of what increases the intensity of that claim of ownership is pride, ego, we wrap our beliefs in our pride and our ego so tightly that we become terrified of letting them go. We feel as if we were to let these beliefs go that we would not only have to contend with the fact that we harbored false ideas, inaccuracies as being true, but we feel as though we must now contend with the humiliation of having been deceived, or not being smart enough to recognize the falsehood to begin with. This means that after having been deceived for long periods of time it becomes ever increasingly more difficult to let go of our false beliefs, because our pride, our ego, which then eventually translates into our very sense of self and identity, is threatened. To make matters worse there are countless others who will exploit this vulnerability and use it to further humiliate those who may have been harboring false ideas; and so the vicious feedback loop continues. People get cornered with false beliefs and are not permitted to walk away with their heads still held high and the divisiveness continues. I have a theory about driving most drivers of course are average drivers by definition and there are many poor drivers as well. But interspersed with the average and the poor drivers are some excellent drivers drivers, these excellent drivers are able to anticipate the flow of traffic and the behaviors of others, and by doing so are able to act in a way that helps not to only protect their own safety, but creates an area of safety for other drivers, an area of safety that compounds outward to the average and poor drivers, helping to protect them. This idea translates into how we work with one another as human beings, most of us are of average social intelligence, many are of poor social intelligence, however there are a small number of people who understand the flow of social currency and are able to make way for those with average and poor social intelligence, and create areas of safety so that they can continue to grow. It's important to understand how people hear what they hear because it may not reflect what we think it does, and maybe it will help for us to create open spaces for those who discover their false ideas to then be free to move into places where they can grow and relinquish these false notions and be welcomed by their community.