(5 of 5) My Responses are Too Long and Counter-Cultural to Social Media

Relative responded to a response of a response responding to…

My Relative’s responses are in bold.
My responses are in regular.
And I responded line by line-ish.

Relative wrote -
It’s clear you and I are light years apart on this.

I do not believe we are as far apart on these matters as you think. In your previous response, you stated that “…we need to examine the misguided policies of the more recent past…”

And that is exactly what I am speaking to. Including policies of groups, systems, and people that I have been and am currently a part of. I am far less selective than you regarding which policies and systems are questioned. Our criminal justice system, law enforcement can stand to be questioned.

I haven’t the urge to write a tome in reply, but will respond to some of the issues.

I am hoping your response here doesn’t fall short of the basic respect two adults should share, succumbing to a slight regarding the length and substance of my previous responses. Much of any communications anymore, in written correspondence, verbal, or mere social media posting is far too brief and reductive.

Social media and its brevity has taught us to communicate in sound bites, to find few and final words to express an idea, view, or opinion as the final word on the matter. Sadly, it has pervaded beyond our communication to our thought processes as well.

Even the 10-minute sermon has reduced infinite ideas of life and existence to a definitive concept to encapsulate and wrap up before brunch.

Shane Hipps expounds on a concept by Marshall McLuhan that can paint a far larger picture on this in his book Flickering Pixels. Simon Sinek speaks well to social media, etc in regards to the aforementioned in his publications as well as many youtube videos, if those suffice as resources of more brevity.

With that, I shall attempt to keep things brief, and cliche to the social media pattern instead of corresponding with the detail such subjects actually demand of our respect, intellect, and efforts.