Apparently, we as a society learned nothing two weeks ago about rushing to be the first to present what we think really happened, to build our political agenda into a tragedy, and to move the conversation away from sympathy for those impacted to angrily debating the details of the assault by car and gun, the supposed intentions of the perpetrator – who is deceased by the way and cannot actually confirm or deny – and other completely unrelated things, such as if LDS are or are not also Christians.
We've lost the plot. BUT statements are not supportive.
This is where the anchor question comes in: What is the right thing to do?
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InvestableWealth.com – The Wealthsteading Podcast
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The outrage cycle: how online reactions to tragedy move immediately to blame, politics, and division.
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Binary programming: left vs. right, us vs. them — why it's become the default setting and how it trains us to react in anger.
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A personal story about tomatoes: clinging to a narrative even when it doesn't make sense, and what it took to question mine.
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The anger signal: that flash of anger is not permission to post — it's your primary sign to pause and ask what the right thing to do is.
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Practical tools:
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Admit when you've been wrong.
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Give crises time to develop before hot takes.
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Share your opinion with care — or hold it until the right time.
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The better way: you don't change the world by yelling louder. You change it by stepping out of the game and refusing to feed the machine.
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