The eventual end of ignorance

Looking around, especially on Social Media, one could find that they are depressed by the constant barrage of arrogance, ignorance, hate and outrage. It seems like everywhere you turn, nowadays, someone is offended by something, or angry about something or trying to rally support for something.

Even people you know, love; even family members, will say something that shocks you about their beliefs, opinions, etc. It has become par for the course.

More than this, if you read a little into the threads of posts, you will see what I have dubbed the Lizard Devolution. As a person is more roundly offended, or on the other side, more full of bloated and opinionated zeal, the quality of the dialog disintegrates into name calling and logic goes out the window.

Inspite of all this, though, I have noticed a trend, especially among friends I follow on Social Media. More and more, they (and myself, too) seem to be eschewing this kind of behavior. They do not participate, and they are removing those who do.

This strange emancipation has lead to another emancipation in the real world. Some people are beginning to see the reality that, if it sounds idiotic, it probably is. They are no longer participating in

But, instead of swelling and becoming universal, this movement toward sanity in dialog has actually caused something rather unnerving to occur. The voices of irrational dialog have grown louder, by turns, and the lunacy of their views have become darker.

This is frightening to some, and I agree it does not seem like a positive thing. But, I will contend with you, that it is the best possible thing.

See, when you single out an ideology as essentially bad for people, the people who follow that ideology get nervous. That nervousness is based on the fear that they may indeed be wrong. But that fear is never something they would admit. Instead, it leads to the bravado and saber rattling of overly self-assured ranting. The ranting is a symptom of fear that what is being touted is actually nothing but a figment of their imagination.

So, there will be a tide of ranting and yelling and Lizard Devolution on threads and comments, and in real life, too. And it may seem to those of us that sanity has left this world.

But in reality, what those of us who love truth are really seeing, is the death throes of ignorance and those who wallow in it. The bliss has gone and fear rules them. That means that there is an eventual end coming to the proliferation of ignorance. Sanity, hope, logic and peace will rule.

In the meantime we must learn to hear those rantings for what they really are: the retreat of ignorance.