Signals - how we perceive and react
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We signal to others, using winks and whistles, gestures as small and quick as the blink of an eye, the speed of light. Through history we have developed ways of signalling to others important messages. Now we have come to a point in history where we can use these inventions to share pictures of our inner most thoughts, pictures of cats and nudes. We mustn’t forget that we can lose self-respect by blurting out anything. We must take pause, every day, for it is so easy to just click a button and announce to the world whatever we think in that moment in time. Currently not everyone will know the nuanced context of that statement, it is just a straight binary message. No one will understand the moments that led you to that statement. This leaves plenty of room for judgement, which people can also share at the blink of an eye, this in turn creates a feedback loop of negative energy and misinformation. Through this powerful signalling technology, we have a created a pit of anger. With the rolling news, the constant amalgamation of negative information shared, we are controlled through fear. We can escape, through positive thought, through the breaking down and understanding of human psychology. Through self-awareness. How we perceive things is altered by the medium used to convey the message. We need footnotes and disclaimers; we need context, and we need to understand the person before we can understand the message. Else it is just our experience projecting onto their plane of expression, which is a disrespect.