It’s time to hear your friends and acquaintances telling their own, personal version of that party/movement/public figure. Maybe time to see them siding against each other, and feel the urge to intervene.
Talking about politics is dangerous, it might be harmful. It’s never been a constructive debate.
When you argue about politics, there’s no way: you won’t move your opponent’s position by a hair. It’s never happened as far as I’m concerned. It leads only to further tension and who knows where it may escalate. Only patience is the tool to stop it.
And for each person you grow esteem for, after hearing him/her talking about some political topic, there are five which will disappoint you after you were looking up to them, because they talk nonsense about a political party/person.
Friends you use to listen to for their valuable opinions, attack your party quoting unlikely sources, putting together incomplete evidences, tarring all with the same brush. They expand negligible details to the level of main example of their enemy’s failure. They promote their own party with arguments which seem taken from a fairy tale. Logic, reason vanish in few minutes as they were never with them.
Those esteemed friends suddenly become a “WTF?” in your mind, you ask yourself what’s pushing your good friend to make such horrid claims, worth a person of a way lower cultural ground or a fourth grade charlatan. You realize how people around you abuse words, deforming reality into a caricature of itself, simplifying it to the sound of loud jokes and mottos, with a sarcasm founded on empty ground.
All of this is feeded by a sort of “faith”, a mysterious force which fills up their minds emptied by lack of ideals (not like you got many either!), a focal point at which to focus their proud sense of reality, and giving them a feeling of belonging.
Side somewhere and you’ll participate, you’ll share, it will fill your void, it will feed your hungry cerebral cortex, it will make you emit an energy to the sound of words which will elevate you above the anonymous mass of silent souls. It doesn’t matter what you say, just say it.
It’s time to hear esteemed people talking bullshit.
I’ll keep my mouth shut.
Talking about politics is dangerous, it might be harmful. It’s never been a constructive debate.
When you argue about politics, there’s no way: you won’t move your opponent’s position by a hair. It’s never happened as far as I’m concerned. It leads only to further tension and who knows where it may escalate. Only patience is the tool to stop it.
And for each person you grow esteem for, after hearing him/her talking about some political topic, there are five which will disappoint you after you were looking up to them, because they talk nonsense about a political party/person.
Friends you use to listen to for their valuable opinions, attack your party quoting unlikely sources, putting together incomplete evidences, tarring all with the same brush. They expand negligible details to the level of main example of their enemy’s failure. They promote their own party with arguments which seem taken from a fairy tale. Logic, reason vanish in few minutes as they were never with them.
Those esteemed friends suddenly become a “WTF?” in your mind, you ask yourself what’s pushing your good friend to make such horrid claims, worth a person of a way lower cultural ground or a fourth grade charlatan. You realize how people around you abuse words, deforming reality into a caricature of itself, simplifying it to the sound of loud jokes and mottos, with a sarcasm founded on empty ground.
All of this is feeded by a sort of “faith”, a mysterious force which fills up their minds emptied by lack of ideals (not like you got many either!), a focal point at which to focus their proud sense of reality, and giving them a feeling of belonging.
Side somewhere and you’ll participate, you’ll share, it will fill your void, it will feed your hungry cerebral cortex, it will make you emit an energy to the sound of words which will elevate you above the anonymous mass of silent souls. It doesn’t matter what you say, just say it.
It’s time to hear esteemed people talking bullshit.
I’ll keep my mouth shut.
