Monday, May 16, 2022

Biden Addresses Buffalo Shooting At Law Enforcement Memorial

President Biden discusses hate and how we should find solutions. In many ways there are multiple factors that relate to mental health, social groups, social media, false perceptions, devaluing of human life, hyper politics, rapid change globally, etc... We often call this the internal factors that are adjusting to external pressures (i.e. live streaming hate through social media and in turn actively fighting it through stronger mental feedback loops through cognitive engagement and creating new neural networks through self interest. I wonder if it is possible to change perception by providing the type of  information that forces extremists on these networks to think about the meaning of information to solve problems that lead them to greater awareness of the dangers of such beliefs? {worm and hook} {Kind of like those books that you pick a choice and then jump to a page.} Tools of the digital era? ðŸ¤” Sorry thinking out of the box. Forget it...the old ways seems to be working good enough I guess. 🤷 We are struggling with policies for mandatory counseling, coding, and understanding macro trends when violence, bullying and extremism are present. i.e. outward projection of inward angst {i.e. where they got radicalized, who were they talking to, are there officials involved, what language is being used, information coming from overseas, etc..}. Wouldn't it be awesome to solve problems prior to them becoming bigger issues. Dumb idea I guess. ). These are patterns of change of different versions of how we see each other and our country. 

I advocate for bi-partisanship, critical thinking, early intervention and long term solutions. Sometimes hate is embedded in some of our institutions and not easy to discover and other times it is lone wolf radicalism. In my experience rumors and chatter are not innocent and often part of other more serious communication networks information (Sometimes they could even be foreign manipulated to create problems through websites, social media and extremist networks). 

Republicans and Democrats must be on the same page with this with genuine national interest. There should be no foot dragging when the signs are present and behaviors become apparent. While one may lead to violence it is often the context of such bad behavior on a social level that activates the lone wolf. We need a single conception of what it means to be an American. A universal conception of an "American" and in turn ensuring our institutions seek to maintain societal trust through objective critical thinking and "moral conscious" (It only seems dumb that I keep saying it now but it does have I believe an important point. Time answers all questions.)

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