re: #3 CuriousLurker

The subject of the troubles has come up a few times here in the past, so it’ll be very interesting to hear about your experiences if it ever comes up again.

Excellent! I’m glad you found some of it helpful. I’ve posted other resources in the past, but things tend to get a bit scattered about after a few years. I’ll have to sit down and see if I can make a list and keep them linked to each other.

There’s some really good, serious stuff out there, but unfortunately it tends to be the extreme fear mongering crap with a political agenda that attracts all the attention and sells books galore. That hateful, hysterical nonsense isn’t going to make the world a better or safer place for anyone.

agreed - and I know walking that rope between - informing yourself, being interested in the world, having empathy and trying to affect change while remaining nuanced and dispersonal and willing is a really difficult task.

We naturally want to form opinions and come to easy conclusions, the harder work is letting the information dictate how you change rather than you changing the contexts to fit your own conclusions.

I work at this - the tempering of the bleeding heart with a curious mind.

it takes energy and time to gift information and context to others - and people take it for granted. I do appreciate it - and i make the effort to not take it for granted in return :)