A Political Post

Hindsight may be 20/20 but when one is facing the future and there are some potential alarm bells ringing I'd say don't parrot off blind info irresponsibly BUT also don't be so quick to halt any communication of said "alarm bells" pawning them off as "hype" etc.- some cultural tragedies have ACTUALLY occurred in the recent past and they start through various social patterns and maybe if our criticized/often misused social media outlets (and resultant open discussion of issues on grand scales through the speed of our current web) had existed during earlier periods of severe darkness (such as the Holocaust), maybe some things would have never been able to go down to such a large wild extent like has gone down in even recent history because a majority was informed enough to know what was going on and said "No, not on my watch". The fact is that human tragedies have gone down and been let to occur by the majority of ONLOOKERS who never halted the little minority fueling the badly planted seeds of evil. Say what you will but in cultures it DOES matter what the majority upholds and whether sane ideas are upheld. The media can do a lot of harm but it can expose things too that otherwise would never been seen by the majority. Do you think "make love not war" or protest over war would have occurred in the 60s/70s without television and photos exposing the actuality of it for people to see and face it's horror? Hindsight is sure 20/20 but how do we avoid going down a future bad pattern if we may have access to information that was verified on a social level? I don't believe it's by not discussing it- silence is where the minority works fast and hard while the silent are absent or waiting. This post isn't an opening to have a debate as I'm not particularly interested in various takes on our current society (unless I've specifically asked someone directly) but just an urge to only state my particular view if anyone is interested; that good, bad or ugly we better discuss this folks, at least enough so we can personally be satisfied with our OWN conclusion reached so we can get into effective action of some sort moving forward on whatever we personally see fit that will maybe make things more tolerable or better.