I think everyone has noticed the upsurge in nasty people and utter disgusting behavior going on in the world. Protests, attacks on people who don’t agree with the protest, slandering certain people on Social Media, etc. And the shocking thing for me at least, is that these people don’t seem to care what they post or how ruthless it gets! We Czaja kids were brought up by strict parents who wouldn’t tolerate any of that! None of it! We always joked that if our parents found out about us engaging in anything like this, they “wouldn’t have let us live.” Not true obviously but close! Ha!
So what’s up? Hmmmm..I suspect letting kids become too liberated before they’re actually ready for it Some kids mature faster than others. But kids need to be nurtured until early adulthood…early 20s etc. Even after that parental advice is very much a keeper, so to speak. We gradually move into adulthood and parents/authority figures gradually let go.
The world is quite different now than it was when I was a teenager (now a senior citizen). We had rules to live by, standards to maintain, goals we worked towards, and manners to maintain. We were taught to respect others even if the others were not nice people and didn’t respect us. “Just stay away from them” was the parental advice. Never slander or spew hatred or try to attack them! It’s sooooo shocking now how people of any age try to do harm to those that don’t see their point of view as the ONLY view, or slander people they don’t like, all the while knowing that they are spreading actual lies (usually about people in the news etc.)
Social Media is a big reason people do a lot of this stuff because it’s online. You can create a fake profile for yourself, and poof! Be as disgusting as you want with zero accountability. And that’s the thing…NO accountability. Not being held responsible for your actions. No apologies for your slander/bald-faced lies about someone in the news…a person you don’t even know!
Many times I think it’s our adversaries in the world who hack into Social Media and create lies about everything in the USA and the world in order to feed people (brainwash) with their ideology, which makes it easier to move in and take control and basically ruin a state or country, etc. That’s how failed countries happen. People are brainwashed by ideologies that sound good by people who are professional snake-oil salesmen. My relatives came from communist Poland. I know a few thousand things about communism. The number 1 thing is that you DON’T want that in your lives!
But what a way to “sell your goods” so to speak. As a professional musician I’m used to selling my goods by informing people how they can learn music, play piano, sing, etc. I ramp up the rewards of becoming a musician even if it’s only as an amateur. I don’t threaten them, slander them or otherwise try to sell them “swampland in Florida.” BIG difference!
It’s amazing how people try ulterior methods of winning people over. No matter what you’re trying to do you still have to let people make the decision for themselves. Lies, slander, physical attacks, the list is long as to the lengths people will go to in order to win the fight. I swear, many of these types have lost their minds and should be considering mental help. And don’t get me started on those who lose their souls to protest certain subjects and act like nincompoops for a paycheck!
Now in current times we have AI (artificial intelligence). Swell. Now we don’t even know if who or what we’re engaging with is even real! Ugh!!!! I have started to see what I think is AI vs reality but you really do have to observe for a while to make that assessment. Something else we all needed in our lives…trying to determine if what we’re engaged with is real or made up. Seriously?! And now people who have no good intentions can promote AI generated lies, propaganda, threats against others and run off scot-free because it’s fake not real. Interesting that we all need IDs to get lots of things now including aspirin! One would think this type of identification would cut down drastically on these slimy types of behavior. But apparently it doesn’t. Well beyond our control.
So in conclusion, modern day life has an added “thing” we all probably never expected. How do we handle this? For one, pray that normal people can see through this junk and move forward in a moral and appropriate manner. That is a big one in fixing slander and lies and brainwashing techniques. Don’t engage in this crap yourselves. Walk away. We all know what is right and what is wrong. Really!
Again, today’s world has become a bit shocking in this department of how people or entities will stop at nothing to ruin other people or establishments, or countries. We can’t stop it ourselves but we can bring awareness to it’s awful presence and try to derail this crap as much as we can. We can band together to make sure this junk doesn’t take over and brainwash our younger generations. We can stand strong. That’s who we are. We’re Damn Yankees! We know how to keep our sanity and our freedoms. We did that 250 years ago! You betcha!!!!
Eve Sophia 