Listen

The entire world seems to lack the power to be heard. So the entire world seeks more power. Trough social media, whatsapp chat messengers or maybe by having a successful job. Or maybe trough politics to really get your voice heard. Of course go corrupt or you wouldn’t get to the top fast enough. Or if those options are not put away for you grab some attention by being very obnoxious, or made popular by producers and singing contests. Or just shoot a bunch of people. When you kill as many people as you can the world would want to know why you did it. Then they will listen.
Wait, what was that last word? Listen…?
Implying someone speaking to some single individuals face to make sure this first speaking individual can convey his views, ideas and imagination precisely enough to the other individual so this person understands what exactly is meant? While by the way this other individual is giving his undivided attention to the speaker and is doing this thing: “listening” in order to make sure the gap of misunderstanding is as little as possible? After all the speaking individual must have a life and a culture, a past, present and future, all of his or her own. So would probably use different means, words and illustrations than anyone else to get this message across. To make sure listening individual understands what is really meant, he or she would have to consider the speaker, know who it is, accept who it is. Make sure that to be unbiased toward the speaking individual by his or hers own life, culture, past, present and future. Listen from the speakers point of view.
But no…
How could that be right? We are working so hard to make this place more efficient so we can control masses of people and make them be “happy” or at least compliant so they can live a long and productive life. So how can it possibly be the right way to convey a message when it requires one on one contact. That’s not efficiency… It would take ages to get the message out to the world… Things are to be way more efficient in this “hyper modern” world were fast isn’t quick enough and yesterday is too late. The world should have read, understood and believed this text months ago if not years.
No, I’d rather seek attention with this writing on social media, newspapers for example, they are always in for a good story. I’m sure they will publish this controversial opinion to keep the millions of readers ensnared. Millions of readers that will read this article and will never listen to it.