The Case For Checking Our Ego Blind Spots!
I've a poor practice of studying internet comments. Not engaging, just studying. I do not know why I actually do it (most likely has something related to human nature’s inclination to look at horrors like train wrecks or reality television), but I know that it is certainly one of my most self-destructive habits.
It is also an enlightening, although exhausting, experience. Within the wake of each and every tragedy, human legal rights breach, and political embarrassment, I watch as people’s egos visit play online.
I see egos rampaging in comments like “not all men” or “all lives matter” or “there’s good people on sides”. I love to hope that almost all these comments don’t originate from an origin of real hate, although in each and every situation, exactly the same insidious concern is ...