Crowded Rock Reality
About this episode
The episode discusses listener questions about communication and the impact of social media on healthy debate.
In these charades we call episodes, we tackle two listener questions. We never see them, or very rarely see them, before we press record, so you hear our answers completely cold. Some subjects we know a fair bit about, and we are honest about that. Others come from our own life experience. But sometimes we are presented with a question, and simply have to go with it, seeing what emerges from the conversation, and our thoughts. Our first listener question arrives from Estefania in Jalisco, Mexico - “Do you think we’ve stopped listening to each other? We are driven by social media, which itself thrives on division. We are on this crowded rock, and we need to start getting on. I agree, we need to use words better, and maybe some words shouldn’t be used, but why not? Too many people seem to be looking to take offence and enjoying the effects of endorphins caused by arguing. All views need to be heard, within reason, but we seem to be losing the inclination to healthy debate. We're in a strange spot right now, I don’t recognize the tone of international conversation right now, its not my voice. We shouldn’t just go with the flow, we need a higher level of intelligence, compassion and…
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