Back and forth the pendulum swings. Why can’t we all just be centrists???????? Why is there a left and right?????? Why can’t we meet in the middle?????

I have been placing myself back in the hotbed of inter.net discourse. Sitting right on the battlefield in the middle of no man’s land. Except I am not fighting for either side, I am a dumb dumb, pea-brained, wittle guy sitting there wonder why “we can’t all be together on this?????????”

I want to write my thoughts out on why we live in such a culture of division. So focused on on hating each other. But I often times wonder if that is even good enough. Why am I writing this? This isn’t the way it was supposed to go. I feel like a long time the internet was a nice and dandy place, filled with innovation and wonder. But I don’t think that’s the case. Instead of bringing us closer, we have drifted further and further until an ocean of division sits between us.

What happened. What happened. What happened.

I have stopped pointing fingers, as it is the opposite of productive to point the finger at any one thing in particular. No… lately I have been sitting in a position of questioning the apathetic. Since when has acting like you’re above discourse, debate, and culture seemed like it was the high ideal. And why do they act so damn smug all of the time. I want to talk a little bit about why it is so damn important to develop a sense of empathy, especially on this tormented plane of existence. We live in hell, I’m sure of it.

Have you ever heard the tale of the Tower of Babel? Once the building of tower became so high that the top of the tower was inside the clouds, the foundation’s workers below could no longer communicate with the one’s on top. Eventually, the tower collapsed as no one could no longer talk to one another. The distance became too vast. Communication became obsolete. Eventually, the workers on top spoke a completely different language from those below. This myth has always been associated with the origin of language. But I think it has a lot to do with the story of distance. When you keep finding yourself in more niche and niche of spaces, soon people outside those spaces become less and less understandable…

The overall lesson I choose to impart here is… go the fuck outside.