u/Fluffy_Efficiency623

Say age 25 or so when we have had some time to experience adult life and key our brains mature, then we do a year of learning and skill building. Emotional regulation, healthy communication, boundary setting. Learning about the impacts of trauma, basic mental health conditions, the value of exercise and how to eat well, the value of play for adults and being creative. And a section on how to resist marketing and polarization, and how to identify logical fallacies and the most common types of bias or errors in thinking that people make. So basically critical thinking.

So many of our societal issues are because people get stuck in survival mode/fight or fight and end up in Us vs. Them thinking, and are vulnerable to being manipulated. And people suffer because they don't have the ability to self reflect or build deep relationships and be vulnerable. So I think we just ban the ability to avoid this stuff. Oh you're a CEO of a company you inherited at 23? Too bad, you're learning how to talk to your wife now. You're maybe a little racist? Now you get to learn about how society treats people from different backgrounds. Anger problems? Nope. Time to calm down.

Say age 25 or so when we have had some time to experience adult life and key our brains mature, then we do a year of learning and skill building. Emotional regulation, healthy communication, boundary setting. Learning about the impacts of trauma, basic mental health conditions, the value of exercise and how to eat well, the value of play for adults and being creative. And a section on how to resist marketing and polarization, and how to identify logical fallacies and the most common types of bias or errors in thinking that people make. So basically critical thinking.

So many of our societal issues are because people get stuck in survival mode/fight or fight and end up in Us vs. Them thinking, and are vulnerable to being manipulated. And people suffer because they don't have the ability to self reflect or build deep relationships and be vulnerable. So I think we just ban the ability to avoid this stuff. Oh you're a CEO of a company you inherited at 23? Too bad, you're learning how to talk to your wife now. You're maybe a little racist? Now you get to learn about how society treats people from different backgrounds. Anger problems? Nope. Time to calm down.

Just curious on people's thoughts. Basically everyone I encounter in-person is respectful and friendly. I know our community is fairly loving as we have a ton of community programs and supports, and we elected Marie Renaud who is an avid disability advocate. When I browse this subreddit I see normal posts like weather, business recommendations, etc. But on the big Facebook community pages it seems like almost every post is incredibly dysregulated and full of anger. People are constantly attacking each other and swearing and being either passive aggressive or actively aggressive.

It hurts me to see, because as a community we each have to do our part to take care of each other, be kind to each other, and avoid getting sucked into the fear-based Us vs. Them stuff that is spreading all over the place. People seem understandably upset about a lot of things, but they don't seem able to discuss things or reflect on how they are contributing to the issues.

I guess I just don't want us to lose our chance at connecting with each other because we're in survival mode, and I think that the respect and love we express in person needs to show up online as well. Is there any way we can encourage people to be more kind towards each other?