This box is blue. No, it is not. Yes, it is.

I blame the audience more than the speakers. You are all adults. It is time you start acting like one.

I know its a cliché but it is true of social media, and any other form of anonymous or virtual communication. If I said the box is blue below, you are sure to get people to argue it. And also those who will comment to proclaim how much they hate blue or boxes. And also those who will call me some labels to exclude those who can’t see colour or shapes or whatever.

And all the while, they will all think themselves as the most intelligent of beings. There is something about virtual communication where the physical consequences are not present to one’s rude or anti-social behaviour that brings out this in many people. Most people are not talking the point they are talking the person, most people are not interested in ideas but in themselves. A self obsession. Them needing to be heard and exalted as the best thing since slice bread. A sharp increase of this form of behaviour has also been observed in workspaces during the covid fakedemic era when most office workers were working offline. Whereas is certain circumstances it might have helped matter by employees finally being brave enough to voice their actual displeasure and employers having to face reality - it has always gone overboard to the point of unproductive and it has always been self motivated.

I am starting to find virtual and especially anonymous and virtual conversations tedious. Unworthwhile of having for the most part. All everyone is interested in is finding ways to prove each other wrong and claiming themselves the king of the castle. Well you can have your sand castle of endless misery. Conversations were meant to be had in person. This is mostly one sided, virtual and anonymous, addition that to that especially of txt or recorded voice based. Virtual live communication with a name and face are slightly different but they still can’t match the face to face experience. Where to be uncivilised you have to put a lot at stake. And most usually don’t unless they have nothing of stake to begin with. We should have not gone ahead with this experiment without fully understanding its consequences on a wider scale and now we plunging into it further by developing an increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence which maps onto our dysfunctional online behaviour.

The best chance we have is for many of us individuals, especially those with significant influence over their societies, to have a really hard look at themselves, self reflect, think about what kind of society they would like to be a part of, and then project those values through their behaviour and not promote the regressive ones.

This is where my interest in Christianity comes in. Yes, for many it might be annoying that it isn’t faith based. I don’t understand why my faith or lack of in a religious system has any affect on your own. A bit like the covid vaccine debate all over. I have a fascination with mythologies and theology so of course I will explore it as much as possible. Although I still would prefer calling myself a Christian than anything else. Maybe I will come to Christ, maybe I will not. That is my journey and my business. Nothing to do with anyone else.

Apart from that, the idea of it is coherent. Christian values overall, especially those evolved over time till now, create a more humane value system. It is almost the fulfilment of Greek philosophy at its finest. And also has the highest possibility of actually being true. If we understand them to be the highest of values, keep ourselves open to the ideology and theology behind it being true beyond facts, inhabit them in all our systems, and even make technological advancements with that set of values and morality being at the core, I think we would arrive at a better destination than what the current journey would take us. This has been my point for past however many years as I have been exploring Christianity. This is why I don’t think anything else, or anything else which doesn’t involve it, is capable of saving the West. This is why you see people on either sides of the political extreme who are divorced from its true understanding are so destructive to the West.

I think we are all at a point where we really need to deeply self reflect as individuals and as a society, and take a moment to really consider where our indifference from the core of humanity and common sense is leading us. Is it really a desirable destination? Do we really think we have the strength to withstand the destruction that our selfish desires and indifferent attitudes will unleash? We got us into this mess and we can bring ourselves out of it. Even if you believe in divine intervention it won’t come unless you first get up and do something about it.

I blame the audience more than the speakers. You are all adults. It is time you start acting like one.

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