I remember a time when people used to fight to have a voice. It was liberating and it signified a generational change that everyone expected to bring empowerment, equality and collaboration. And while we knew it would have some drawbacks, it came to the point of saturation. Now why do I mean by saturation point? It simply means we have given platforms for people to have a voice, and now we have so many platforms, so many identities that we have too many voices and sometimes voices coming from the same places. It is a burden to think that we took such potential to such lows and I see it everywhere. People are complaining about bullies, people are complaining about hate and people are complaining pretty much about anything these days. Has anybody considered that all these people complaining about injustice are creating exactly what they dread in the first place? Yes, there are nice people in this equation, but the solution got so saturated that only the worst come out at the top. Having a voice once meant change. Having a voice means today you get to impact upon subjects without having to think how honest one’s opinion is. We might think we have the best interest at heart, but often we will speak without having all the facts, and we will base our arguments on assumptions because, like stated earlier, we don’t have all the facts. And people won’t care if their arguments fall out. They have so many personalities online, to lose one means just creating another one. Literally, I can be as many people I want online. I can create a new persona anytime I desire and as long as I can fake it, I can make it. It doesn’t require much skills and capabilities to fake it neither. We can doctor pictures, experiences and wisdom we don’t possess and make the entire world believe it, just because it’s so hard to validate what we see in front of us. Socrates warned us about such dilemmas where a society would attribute equal powers to equals and unequaled likes. Not everybody is an expert on subject and while it’s fun to fake it or believe we know the correct answer, we are guilty of empowering everybody regardless of the consequences this may cause down the lines. Shouldn’t we attribute strengths to arguments based on the capacity of one to understand the subject in question? I am all about equality, but equality doesn’t signify that power needs to be distributed unequivocally. It needs to leave doubt and we must question who is worthy of that power in the first place. We can give power to the worst of the kind, and we can’t say these kinds don’t exist neither, otherwise we wouldn’t have prisons and so much crime. It seems to me the world is slowly being held hostage to very shallow people with questionable motives that most don’t question in the first place, because they project such powerful and likable images. I don’t know where the world goes from here, but I sure see a lot of people hating, spewing awful words, opinionizing every statement, having objections about everything they don’t seem fit, but very few actually question their own manners as to speak. People will be quick to judge pollution for example, but they won’t question their own demands on products that pollute in the first place. Such oxymoron-ious people are terrible as they are loud, and they have strong voices that crush others who simply want to participate in the discussion. And as they gather around and group together, they can overtake an outcome very fast. We look around what people do, and it is hard to accept that this is what is becoming. Part of me understands that the worst of this technological embrace in the world will fade with time, but the other smarter part of me understands the impact of ideologies on societies and how they can destroy worlds over time as they gather momentum. We should be very careful about the way we behave and our abilities to project words into the world should be reflected as a societal discussion on etiquettes. It has been a lot of change in very little time, and I understand this is very hard to control but it doesn’t change the fact that there should be more discussions on the impact of our words. Just because we can shouldn’t necessarily mean we should voice our opinions because if everybody started to do so, perhaps the wrong arguments will start gaining momentum and what have we done then? We don’t understand these impacts until it truly impacts someone and then we’ll just right back on the train, just in another wagon, to fight injustice and bullying, however we are all guilty of it. In all of this, can we just take a break? Could it be possible to make people reflect on the impacts of what they post and how they are shaping our societies? Maybe. For me, it has always been very logical to reflect before speaking. Writing has provided me that ability and I just hope somewhere along the lines, someone will read this and reflect too just a little more. Just a little more is all that is necessary to bring awareness. When in doubt, best to keep silence or simply profess our arguments with a cautionary end-note of how we made that judgement in the first place, so others can reflect too, or clarify what we need to know.

Hoping only for the best, which much love.

Inspired by Pamela Anderson and her post on how cruel the world is. Hope you feel better, from one friend to another.