Everyone can feel it: with new power come new responsibilities.
I applaud Aamir Kadri for feeling (and acting!) the same way – responsibly.
So, putting my tinfoil hat on for a while – but hear me out:
Isn’t it a little peculiar that 2 people who come from two very different places on earth seem to share a more similar ethical compass with one another than with their next door neighbors?
How come?
I assume, they both deeply care and try to educate themselves at any possible opportunity. They question and are curious.
I get it that not everyone is neither interested or has the (time, financial, emotional, etc.) capacities left to care.
But so a rift started happening – through societies like a hot knife through butter. Cutting sisters from brothers, parents from their kids, best friends from each other and generations apart.
The division we see happening in literal „concert“ globally among and within (mostly industrialized, democratic) societies is nothing that „just happened“. It bears the tell-tale signs of manufactured synchronicity – a clockwork doing its thing to arrive at the hour.
It’s now 5 minutes left.
How are we gonna react?
Thank you, Aamir, for the inspiring talks and messages exchanges so far. To me they are a testament to what an Internet-powered global society should be all about – learning, understanding and bridging cross cultural divides.
…ok, I take off my tinfoil hat now, back to work.