Vested Interest October 2024

I always find it interesting that not too many years ago it was “taboo” to discuss your political, religious or financial status openly.  Fast forward to today, and we are flooded with social media posts featuring non-sensical and uneducated rhetoric on politics, memes about religion and Instagram images of lavish lifestyles and exuberant wealth.  Oh, how far we have come!  We live in this unfamiliar and sometimes uncomfortable “keyboard culture” where people feel empowered to write anything they want on social media channels and then receive positive reinforcement from like-minded followers.  And to me, this is what is so unsettling about our current political climate.  Now, more than ever, we have to work especially hard to decipher what information is true and untrue and which source seems the least biased or most trustworthy.  I personally choose to reserve social media as a place to connect with family and friends, not air out our differences.  I enjoy seeing pictures of old high school friends and their family adventures.  I enjoy sharing accomplishments of my children and giving a birthday shoutout to a distant relative.  Plain and simple, I choose to avoid getting “political” on social media.  BUT, here is what I plan to do, and I would like to encourage you to do the same.

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