nursingforsocialjustice

What is quizzical judgement? I want to hear more, through my value-filter, to organize information in accordance with my schema. What an interesting crossroads we are standing in. I have a sneaking suspicion that the Covid crisis is bringing some people together, driving some people apart, solidifying biases and creating some space for reflection, but, in the grand scheme of things, 3 weeks is not very much time.

There are so many things that I do not know, but, I can safely say this with confidence: I am fairly sure that the lesson learned here should not be unequivocal support for ultranationalism. If the takeaway of the pandemic of 2020 is to close ourselves off more, to give less to others and keep more for ourselves, then it is possible that the unintended consequence of self-interest and bootstrapping it to glory and prosperity had not been realized.

There are many indefinites in the world. It’s quite possibly all indefinites and no sureties. There is always the possibility that this day may be my last day. I am okay with that. I still experience uneasy fluttering in the pit of my stomach that keeps me up at night. There still remains a tightrope that I walk, balancing eternal Hope and spiteful cynicism. This curious world we live in, where I am not sure if we are charging forward to greatness, embracing the unknown and rolling with the punches, or standing still, reliving eternal Groundhog Day moments where we wish for something different but are not sure what needs to change to stop making the same mistakes over and over again.

Peace,

Michelle D.

P.S. I think many underestimate the pervasiveness and influence of AI on social media sites and Internet search engines. The things that are brought close to us are the things that algorithms learn that we want. What is the fallout of that over the long run?