I just unfriended someone I have cared about very much. It was a painful decision and one I thought about for several days before doing it. I have many friends of differing political persuasions and of course I dont always agree with them, nor they with me. I believe in debates between members of the loyal opposition. But I also believe in intelligent debates, even if opponents see things differently. My friends posts have reached a crescendo that is just so toxic and hurtful that I just didnt want to see them anymore. Not only that, theyd reached new lows in careful critical analysis and intelligence. They were just knee-jerk ad hominem attacks on my kind. Very oppressive, really. And the worst thing is that their posts postulated positions and views that misrepresent how I and those who are politically like me really think and feel. If an endeavor doesnt further the evolution of my thinking or comprehension of the world, or my enjoyment of the world, it falls into my life-is-too-short category and I dont have time for it. Ive reached that luxurious moment in life when I know who I am, when Ive raised my children, when Ive done a few million things and have learned from them all, and dont need to spin my wheels going nowhere. And so, this former FB friend has tied my stomach in knots for the last time. Im willing for some stomach knot-tying about real issues, about true facts and truly bad news. I expect it. But Im no longer doing the gratuitous dance of absorbing and thinking about their emotion-driven, nonsensical hail Marys from a type of consciousness that isnt going to last. The world is moving on, not falling backward. Even scientists postulate that a time machine could be built that would allow one to skip forward in time a bit, but never one that would take us back into the past. The Big Bang doesnt un-bang and the Universe doesnt start going backward. Its about growth and expansion and progress, and not about creating ones own psuedo-reality where facts are rearranged like yard furniture just to fit ones fears and limited understandings. Do I think there is great intelligence among those who are my political opposite? Yes. Do I intend to continue to dialogue with those? Yes. But I will no longer brook relationships that arent based on an intelligent understanding of how things really work. And, sadly that moment came. I wish them well. I just dont want to see what theyre posting any longer.
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 22:25:06 +0000
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