06/04/2025
On Reading a Polarizing Piece
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There is a tendency I notice where if I say something which could be challenging or polarizing, it obviously triggers some kind of mental response in readers, which I believe is often coming from rebelliousness and perhaps a need to be wrong, or a need to prove oneself, or an assumption of disconnection.
Whatever the reason is, it always goes like this: I say something that I believe is true, someone else reads what I've written and jumps to the conclusion that if I believe one thing is true, then something else must be false.
And so a war is assumed, a fight is picked, and they say, "I can't get behind someone who believes so and so."
Meanwhile, I agree with their perspective too.
One doesn't cancel out the other.
This comes in a variety of flavors.
I'm talking extensively now about the Right Use of AI, and the arguments people come up with about it appear completely arbitrary to me.
I'll talk about the Right Use of AI, and someone will say, "I don't think we should depend on AI."
And I respond, "Of course, that's exactly what I'm talking about."
Someone else says, "I'm integrating AI into everything I do, so I'm glad you're doing it, too."
And I say, "Well, I think you kind of didn't read anything that I wrote there, because that's not what I'm saying at all."
My job here in what I'm doing is not a small task.
My job is to break down mental constructs, and it creates a plethora of assumptions and triggers in the process.
It causes people to think that I am for or against something, and not being for or against something is exactly what my work is.
When I say the Right Use of AI and the Wrong Use of AI, these are used in the Buddhist sense, which is that it either supports human thriving and empowerment and creativity, or it diminishes human empowerment and thriving and creativity.
My whole point is learning how to be more healthy when it comes to this big topic.
It's endlessly surprising to me that the minds of readers can find ways to assume that I am saying anything else, because I think I articulate it pretty clearly.
And yet, when people skim over text and read quickly and jump to conclusions so they have something to argue with, they completely miss the point of the transmission, and then it's, of course, not able to benefit them.
So to be clear, when I'm writing, it's for people who are willing to breathe and take the time to digest what I'm saying, and notice the specific words that I'm using, and ask questions if anything is not clear. It's very simple, though I can't say it's easy, because this is not how people normally communicate.
All of the projections and hatred and assumptions and spring-loaded rebelliousness can come out to play even when there's really nothing to rebel against, unless someone genuinely wants to rebel against health and empowerment. Then what I'm saying in that case is definitely not for you 😅🙏
