Challenging Today's Social Norms

We look up at clouds everyday and they are just part of the landscape view.  If we can look at their processes and see their cycles we can see social networking and its strengths.  Cloud formation and the benefits it brings require a specific set of physical rules to produce rain.

Several posts have brought to light a social norm that is evolving within our dialogue of human existence.  Networking is based on the individual and their needs within the network.  The individual attaching to others who share a similar need/want, form groups or clusters that grow into larger networks.  Assuming (big word) that the larger group or network has some larger purpose beyond the individual and is now operating within that framework, we should see an outcome of their efforts. This clearly oversimplifies a complex process that usually takes a long time to develop.  Examples would be political parties, benevolent groups or hives.

The post drew some stimulating comments that identified a larger issue within the social fabric of the human dynamic.  The debate became intense as we discussed the need for concrete fundamentals within our relationships while retaining fluid activities.   Two sides formed whereby one stated that only fluid relationships are lasting and the other, concrete creates the basis of the fluid relationships to happen.

This discussion exposed a deep issue within our new very social world.  Our fundamental values get exposed in media.  Social media offers us an opportunity to detect and cycle with people and select to follow them.  What are those triggers that give us the sense of wanting to follow another?

Did we see within the posts or comments some shared platform of fundamental values?

These questions seem simple and maybe even childish at first glance, but i would submit they are the tip of the iceberg of current events.

A fluid emotional state lacking personal fundamental values will be given values by someone.

Fundamental values are understood/experienced by everyone.  In reading a post, engaged in conversation or watching a TV show, we all recognize that sensation when something is disturbing, challenging or even invokes our rant at the TV.  If something raises your emotional status then most likely it has challenged your value system.  A value system/belief system is a system whereby regardless of circumstances they apply.  Execution is not always perfection.  But humility allows us to return to our value sets every time.

Fundamental value sets are concrete.  These are the expectations of yourself and your guide in developing a network that helps you and others grow in fluid ways of executing within the framework of these values.

What are your fundamental value sets?

These character traits/core values/fundamental value sets are only important within a relationship, not issues.  Issues are created by civilizations, blown up by media and capitalized on by Politicians/Wall Street/Main Street.  Through this process we have allowed our value sets to become what the media says it is through issues.

This would seem a splitting hair discussion.  Our current political climate and polarization of issues would indicate that it's a very large hair.  Social media is full of folks who have taken on the media centered values of floating character traits because the ends justify the means.  I do not trivialize the issues they do exist and we need to be diligent in our efforts. However losing our core values towards each other will only serve to distract from the very issue we are trying to serve.

We need concrete values that we as a civilization can honor and hold each other accountable.  Within this framework we can be as fluid as we want physically and emotionally.

What three core value words would use regardless of the issue?

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