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I get you. Personally, I made a deliberate choice this year to try to give more benefit of the doubt and charitable interpretations to narratives I see online.

I get you. Personally, I made a deliberate choice this year to try to give more benefit of the doubt and charitable interpretations to narratives I see online. I think one of the key problems facing our culture is mistrust, and the only way I know to remedy that at the individual level is to just... trust more. I accept that sometimes I'll get burned. I'd rather have that happen than to contribute to a society where everyone is untrustworthy because they know they are not being trusted anyway. I don't want people to feel that they may as well do the crime if they're gonna do the time (be mistrusted) anyway.

danielscrubs 6y ago
I agree mostly and it will probably lead to a more happier life. But the incentives amongst interviewers and the ones that are interviewed are too aligned in these cases. You can trust the government because you have little choice, but most media is different, the authenticity just isn’t there nor is the necessity. I had big hopes when wordpress became popular and people started to write small blog posts about their experiences and thoughts. Medium seems to be damaging this though. I’ll stop rambling now.