Chances are I won’t have a million followers. That’s okay. In the book above the author reveals that metaverse platforms like Facebook promote polarizing content precisely because it gets people to react click like and share the content and linger on the sites.

Animosity goes viral. CJ Casciotta the author of the book ends his guide with the call for reconciliation. He thinks the Poets among us have the gifts to change things.

How eerie it was then that in this blog recently I expressed my stance that I’m going to “call in” others not call out real people.

In whatever I do say and write I want to make people feel good. No–I won’t contribute to making others feel like poop. If I don’t want to feel like toilet scum why would I want others to feel that way.

In here I’ll give away the secret to being effective:

A person who is made to feel ashamed is not going to have the energy nor motivation to change their behavior.

Good luck trying to convert them to your cause when you’re attacking them and cutting them down.

Anger serves only to harm the person feeling that way not the object of their anger. Do we really want to live our whole lives fueled up on resentment?

Bitter dark and small should be a chocolate drop. Not how we think about and act towards each other.

Let’s each of us vow not to sharpen our knives to compete in the shame wars going on. Forks Over Knives should be our life philosophy not just an eating plan.

It’s okay to cut into a chicken cutlet. Why should we cut into others with hateful and hurtful rhetoric. Things haven’t changed so that is exactly why it’s likely we should change our tactics.

Like the author of the above book I choose to be a “hopemonger” not a hatemonger.

Let’s resist the siren call of clicking share on incendiary invectives. The best way to neutralize the attempts to shame each other is to not respond to the original attack. To not swallow the “click-bait.”

The year is ending. It’s time to think about where we have been and where each of us wants to go in 2024. I’m an eternal optimist. I think each of us has the power to create the world we want to see.

In my view too it starts with choosing reconciliation. With renouncing harmful acts of hating judging criticizing labeling and acting violent.

We each of us have the right to choose our own path in life. We don’t have to buy what being’s sold about how to treat each other.