A lot of people can’t discuss things in a civil manner any more.

timoc said:
An old Aunt of mine had a way of dealing with people who ranted in her face.
She would exagerate taking a deep breath, then giving the ranter a huge smile, then slowly turn her back on the ranter, walk a few paces, look over her shoulder and smile again, then walk away completely.
She had the most quiet and calm character, and usually stunned those gobby persons.
Over the years I've found myself doing similar as my old Aunt, and it does have an effect. 😊
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My best friend in my school years had a Grandmother that fit that description to a Tee. Always pleasant, even in crappiest of times. I saw him before she passed recently, she was dealing with Alzheimers. He told me about their attending a wedding in the family, his Grandma looked at him and said "This would be a nice place to have a wedding"... he looked at me and smiled... I told him she would have appreciated that sense of humor on all our parts. She was a wonderful woman.
 

chic said:
Division isn't just political. I agree with that. I saw it during the pandemic between the vaccinated and unvaccinated. I don't understand why we always have to be divided into opposing sides especially during a crisis.
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This is simple. Even the Romans used the principle of "divide et impera" (divide and rule or divide and conquer). For the politicians people fighting against each other are much better than most or all people fighting against the government.
 
George1959 said:
This is simple. Even the Romans used the principle of "divide et impera" (divide and rule or divide and conquer). For the politicians people fighting against each other are much better than most or all people fighting against the government.
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Hitler eventually divided his generals too.
 

I wonder if we have started to try "explain" ourselves. With every explanation, comes more questions, which is answered by more explanations, then more questions, etc.... The complexity multiplies fast. We don't have to explain ourselves. No one fully understands, anything. Talking, becomes debating, which becomes arguing, which becomes, fighting. We are unable to solve our problems by explanations. It ain't happening.
 
HermitHogan said:
Many people are too emotionally invested in their opinions and no matter how much evidence to the contrary is presented, they maintain their world view — partially because changing it would alienate their social support network; they'd be ostracized.
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Yeah people can not admit they could be wrong. That's the problem. Any problem or issue I look at, then break it down to the simplest thing that it can. Then when you look at it you see if in its small parts it is as formidable as the whole.

Most problems are not.

I also ask questions. Questions and more questions until I get to the bottom of a topic. Its always in the details where you start to see the cracks forming. From there on it all breaks away to rubble.

But I am also the first to say I am wrong, and I admit for all my life experience and knowledge, travel, education, I still know nothing. Lol!
 

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