Socio-political movements are arising on social media against every sin and offense known to man. For those bored with keyboarding nothing more than feelings, their second option is going to a protest. You’ve got to admit, we all love options.
Social media-only individuals join a movement digitally unlike the confrontation-oriented person who is willing to get dirty, arrested or even killed. Neither choice really articulates paths to solutions. None-the-less, in every case where passionate voices battle for meaningful dialog, the mainstream media reports non-intellectual bias. Constructive dialog is too boring for news organizations and requires some intellectual sweat. If we as a nation could encourage the leading movements toward debate and moral reasoning - is it too great an expectation for constructive dialog? The answer unfortunately is, yes, when news channels oppress real dialog in favor of radical, destructive emotionalism.
A little bit of history on the writing of the US Constitution in 1787 will remind us that the process toward democracy was modeled on the value of ideas, dialog, debate and moral reasoning. The Constitution was written during revolts and gun smoke with the single motivation of forming a more perfect union. Now, 231 years later our nation is facing gun smoke in the streets and hallways of the innocent. From the Convention Hall in 1787, John Adams described the Constitutional Convention as "the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.” We have the model. It's the moral reasoning that is missing.
RPW
Social media-only individuals join a movement digitally unlike the confrontation-oriented person who is willing to get dirty, arrested or even killed. Neither choice really articulates paths to solutions. None-the-less, in every case where passionate voices battle for meaningful dialog, the mainstream media reports non-intellectual bias. Constructive dialog is too boring for news organizations and requires some intellectual sweat. If we as a nation could encourage the leading movements toward debate and moral reasoning - is it too great an expectation for constructive dialog? The answer unfortunately is, yes, when news channels oppress real dialog in favor of radical, destructive emotionalism.
A little bit of history on the writing of the US Constitution in 1787 will remind us that the process toward democracy was modeled on the value of ideas, dialog, debate and moral reasoning. The Constitution was written during revolts and gun smoke with the single motivation of forming a more perfect union. Now, 231 years later our nation is facing gun smoke in the streets and hallways of the innocent. From the Convention Hall in 1787, John Adams described the Constitutional Convention as "the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.” We have the model. It's the moral reasoning that is missing.
RPW