What a fool believes...

As you navigate over the ocean of your life, you learn lessons that help you get to safe harbour when storms are on the horizon.

If you don't learn the lessons, your hull gets slammed, your sails rip and masts break like toothpicks.

You know that because you're still here. Boats can't handle too many storms before being ripped apart and sent to the bottom of the bay.

Fools keep doing the same thing without a trying a different response. 

You're no fool.

Fools don't think for themselves. 

Fools make up stories and relate them as facts.

Fools spend 30 minutes on the internet and tell everyone they have done their research.

Fools hover over Facebook groups, Reddit and chat rooms telling everyone they are wrong because they don't agree with someone else's opinion.

Fools love opinions, especially when it's theirs.

You're no fool. 

Neither am I. That's why you won't see me posting opinions on social media.

My mom once told me to not read the Tabloids because it would rot my brain.

Social media, the internet and even certain television news channels are so heavily opinionated, it has become the new Tabloid media. They make me angry, not for their content, but for their context.

Donald Trump has been blamed for the social divide in the United States. 

If that is true, then who caused the divide in Canada? Our Prime Minister isn't popular among certain groups but he hasn't been as abasive as the outgoing POTUS.

So where did the divide come from?

Is it social unrest caused by COVID lockdowns?

Is it anger stemming from fear?

Is it social media targeted messaging reinforcing a personal bias making it appear as clarity? Watch the Social Dilemma if you want to dive deeper into how Google, Facebook and others target messages to their users.

Is it regular people trying to "protect" us from things we do not see?

What if it is all of the above?

What if the perfect storm is brewing off our coast and our boats aren't ready for it?

Never in my lifetime did I think I would see so much social unrest in North America. It's here, so now what?

Fools used to call the radio stations to spew their nonsense, but the gatekeeper would keep them off the air.

Fools used to write to the newspapers but someone was there to protect us from publishing their rants.

No one is keeping the fools away today. They broadcast their messages at will without filter.

Now, they can do whatever and say whatever they want. 

The gatekeeper job is now yours. Keep fools away from your airwaves. 

They'll rot your brain.

To quote The Doobie Brothers:

But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
And nothing at all keeps sending him...