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Political correctness VS emotional detachment.
7 years ago
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I'm more of a scientific type when I'm presented with a problem in front of me. I look at the cold facts of the situation so I can figure out the root of the problem to then think of ways to fix it.
Often I find that PC culture gets in the way of fixing things, because it encourages infinite layers of things people can get offended by... can't attack and fix the issue at hand if you gotta walk through an emotional minefield first. It's draining, takes a lot of energy.
But on the other side of the same coin you have the lack of care for other people's feelings, and that will also get in the way because we DO have emotions and if they get rattled we easily lose sight of the goal and can't work together anymore. If you disregard the emotions of the one in front of you, you'll turn them against you wheter you had a good point on your side or not.
I fall into this problem very often because of my direct approach to solve a problem, disregarding how the other person will take my point... this problem is exaggerated through text over the internet because to type a message that carefully accounts for the many ways the message can be received by other person it would take the same amount of work you would do while writting a book.
Ain't nobody got time for that -sassy hand move-
But I still find myself on the other side of that, getting offended for small things or just messages other people wrote without accounting for my feelings.
Emojis usually help the other person read the message in a happy playful tone, but this also often predisposes us to take messages without emojis more harshly than they were meant. It's a mess more often than not, too many eggshells to walk through.
Both extremes suck and gets us stuck in a place where we can't get problems fixed.
We gotta try to work towards the middle. Balance sympathy with pragmatism. We can have different opinions without every disagreement to mean an offence. We gotta be a little less ready to be offended, and a little more willing to avoid a couple of eggshells while getting away from the PC culture and detachment extremes. And mostly, we gotta learn that we can disagree... we can disagree on many things, and still work for the same goals side by side, and be friends.
It ain't easy though. Extremes are enticing and juicy... but they are bad... PC culture sucks, being a cold fact machine suck too.
Often I find that PC culture gets in the way of fixing things, because it encourages infinite layers of things people can get offended by... can't attack and fix the issue at hand if you gotta walk through an emotional minefield first. It's draining, takes a lot of energy.
But on the other side of the same coin you have the lack of care for other people's feelings, and that will also get in the way because we DO have emotions and if they get rattled we easily lose sight of the goal and can't work together anymore. If you disregard the emotions of the one in front of you, you'll turn them against you wheter you had a good point on your side or not.
I fall into this problem very often because of my direct approach to solve a problem, disregarding how the other person will take my point... this problem is exaggerated through text over the internet because to type a message that carefully accounts for the many ways the message can be received by other person it would take the same amount of work you would do while writting a book.
Ain't nobody got time for that -sassy hand move-
But I still find myself on the other side of that, getting offended for small things or just messages other people wrote without accounting for my feelings.
Emojis usually help the other person read the message in a happy playful tone, but this also often predisposes us to take messages without emojis more harshly than they were meant. It's a mess more often than not, too many eggshells to walk through.
Both extremes suck and gets us stuck in a place where we can't get problems fixed.
We gotta try to work towards the middle. Balance sympathy with pragmatism. We can have different opinions without every disagreement to mean an offence. We gotta be a little less ready to be offended, and a little more willing to avoid a couple of eggshells while getting away from the PC culture and detachment extremes. And mostly, we gotta learn that we can disagree... we can disagree on many things, and still work for the same goals side by side, and be friends.
It ain't easy though. Extremes are enticing and juicy... but they are bad... PC culture sucks, being a cold fact machine suck too.
I think I really like the idea of being able to befriend someone who disagrees a lot with you and learn from each other's perspectives even if at the end we still disagree.
Though drawing someone else's ideas is still an endorsement of that idea, and that's why some chose to stay away of controversial topics in their art, like rape and underage sex, for example.
This is totally a topic that could be discussed for hours, lol.
Es complicado x.x
Ademas que gran parte de las ideas extremistas empiezan en la crianza y despues en los circulos de amistades. Mi papá por ejemplo me crió con la idea que hay que matar todos los comunistas y sentir asco por los gays.