OPEN STANCE

 

“OPEN STANCE”

 

The notion of “Open Stance” refers to the abilities to (i) form an opinion with all facts available and (ii) communicate it with open-mindedness.

 

With this concept, it is not only a possibility, but it becomes a responsibility for every one of us to take an open stance, whenever we can. Not taking this responsibility leaves an open space, which is gladly taken by those with “Closed stance”.

 

“Closed Stance” allows anyone to say anything in a closed-minded way. “Closed Stance” is the destructive tool that allows false politicians and executives, populists, extremists, sexists, and an array of other “‘ists” to justify oppression, control, violence, exploitation, and abuse. All leading to individual and societal suffering.

 

If every one of us live our “Open Stance” whenever we can (after working on it), communication and especially social media contribution will slowly become constructive. Unfortunately, despite all the good stuff it has allowed, social media has become a destructive force as we use it predominantly as a ventil for our frustration. Acknowledging the many life reasons for frustration, a close stance approach will not deliver on what we yearn. Obscene inequalities fed by a false understanding of merit has brought a significant portion of the Gauss to linger in a non-sentient form of frustration, desto the onslaught of Social Media destructiveness. But the corrective for these dystopian inequalities does not lay in vulgar and naive complaints but in a daily patient creative embrace of the “other”, until the “other” is no longer the “other” anymore. Not “A”, not “B”, but “C”…

 

All what is needed is for you to take an open stance on a thematic of your mindheart. Then the next one will find the courage to do her/is Open Stance. It takes very little courage to do so if you have the tools to live your open stance. The practice of Eigenvielfalt is one of those tools.