Reason has been supplanted by rant

 

Subject: Reason has been supplanted by rant.



I am baffled by the speed of change going on around me and the apparent randomness of effect it is having on the people here in the UK. People have become homogenised into flavours pink, blue, green, yellow with little acknowledgement that they are a blend.

The mindset has become so predictable depending on whom you pin your allegiance, no more an ideological or cosmopolitan intent willing to meet the other half way seeing the subtle half shades of truth in every argument and unwilling to deny the other person that half truth. 

Black or white, good or bad there’s no ‘paradigm twist’ to enable people to get on, it has to be this or that. 

I don’t know what caused this intolerance other than forces at work poisoning our minds with fake news, news which once upon a time you had to go to a certain watering hole to drink but which now a days is deafening our senses by a media which, 24/7 pummels our brains with critical propositions. There’s no solace, no quietus, no peace only conflict and conflict breeds conflict. The full time use of “think tanks” to develop and put over an agenda in business and government which is only beneficial to one side or the other cleaves a divide in society which drives a deep wedge between people. This destruction of the ‘accommodating aspect’ in our personality sets us like rabid dogs at each other’s throat. You used to disagree, vehemently, forcefully, passionately, without loosing sight of the other persons truth. In every argument there has to be grains of truth but in the vitriolic name calling on the so called communication platform, all sense of even handed analysis has been discarded for a rant.