I really, deeply wish everyone would make some collective effort to unlearn the passive argumentative nature we all learned from Twitter.
Everyone always treated posts like invitations to debate or argue every point.
We deserve better than this. We don’t have to do that.
It’s so ingrained that lots of people don’t realize they’re doing it. They think they’re just “making conversation.”
There are so many ways of making conversation that aren’t just contradicting the person.
That doesn’t mean the only option is to agree either! These are false choices you don’t have to adhere to.
Put frankly: people don’t care about opinions from people they wouldn’t ask advice from.
Stop offering your opinion to people who don’t even know you. They don’t care.
For any of that to have meaning or weight, you’ve gotta have some kind of rapport or relationship with them.
Offering your opinions without those things is completely meaningless.
Louie Mantia, Jr.
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