Zoning In

This blog will appeal to everyone. Well, not everyone, but most of you, or those who matter at any rate. 

The first sentence appeals to the widest possible audience, the second simply dissembles and disparages, slipping and splintering into factions and isolating “those who don’t matter”. It is all slight of hand, trickery, tradecraft, designed to polarise and raise emotions. It’s so manipulative. You see it everywhere and at some stage we all get seduced and drawn into fractious thinking… there I go again, causing division, hurling accusations to distract and infuriate. We’re not all the same, although on some level we clearly are.

The instigator may not even realise they are doing it, such is the factionalised approach to discussion these days, contention and conflict forever fuelling even the most trivial interaction. We’re almost becoming unconsciously conditioned to separate and repel, siding with this group, disparaging the other, growing proudly with the badge of honour garnered through such self-identification.

Speaking to Hayley Blackley from the Blue Light Speakers Agency Hayley Brackley | BLS Agency during our podcast, we talked about connection, the power of storytelling, relating lived experience and the deeper connect as humans we feel when hearing or telling these stories. Something happens on a deeper level of consciousness that stirs the emotions, rattles our bones and moves us profoundly. It is the opposite of that conflict orientated discourse played out across the media.

The problem comes when we slip away from that connection, disconnect from the humanity mainframe and seek dissolution, disconnect, isolation and madness, which is the way society is hurling itself, or so it seems.

The point was going to be about deliberate use of ambiguous language to appeal to the masses but as soon as the sentence was written the topic ran away with itself because therein lies madness. You simply cannot appeal to the masses without losing your soul in the process. The mass is hurling towards oblivion and extinction, or so it would seem. The individual, the one, the heart of the many, is the target for delivery. Convert the one and the rest will follow.

What I should have said is that this blog will appeal to no-one, not everyone. Or just one person.