Word of the week has turned a page and a new word to write about is here, Dissonance. Hosted by Penderis in the Buddy Up Server on discord. Each week the community chooses a new word to write about and present their writing in the Drop in the ocean show at 8 PM UTC.

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Dissonance

This should be a good post if I can pull my thoughts together. The commonality of division. Dissonance seems to be rife and to some extent a way of life. Is there anything we can all agree on.

Sometimes there is just someone needed to blame. Things get twisted to suit an agenda other than to find a truth.

On a day in a month one year. Fred had just got his car back after it was stolen the previous night by joy riders. The sixth time in as many weeks. Repairs for damage and replacement of tyres were taking a toll on his pocket. Repairs would have to wait for the end of the month. Two week's to go and two weeks without a car.

Saturday night rolled around, once again Fred's car was stolen. This time was different though, This time, Fred had not got to get repairs done before the car was stolen again. The brakes were faulty.

The Joy rider spun the car in the local supermarket car park. Pulling up the handbrake and spinning the wheels as he accelerated out of the spin. Crowds had formed along the car park median to watch the show. The rubber burning on the tar-mac, the screeching of the tyres leaving their thread mark on the surface, served up to a watching crowd of whistles and cheers with each new skid spin or wheel spin.

The final spin spun into the crowd. Four young children with serious injuries and the driver paralysed. reports on the car indicated the brakes failed. Due to not being repaired. The garage who provided Fred with a quote for repairs gave evidence that Fred knew the repairs needed to be done. The insurance refused to cover any medical costs as the driver was not Fred. Family's of both the injured youths and the paralysed driver successfully sued Fred for 6.3 million USD because he failed to fix the braking system before the car got stolen again.

This is just an example of dissonance. A bit extreme to show that the root behind some dissonance can be the same culprit. Money.

If we could just remove that money or the reliance on it.

Where does all this dissonance come from when we say we want the same thing. when I think back to previous lives lived. I see smaller community's villages or community's that formed to work together, Family's that worked together to survive.

No I am not saying I am reincarnation, just others have lived that life before I was here. which one or if I was one of those, I have no feckin' clue.

Back way back when. Before we had all the technology we have now. People had to think much more for themselves, We had to remember phone numbers and we could remember numerous amounts of them Something which we do not need to do today. Less and less thinking is needed to perform the same tasks. A greater reliance is put on technology and devices to assist in daily tasks.

Through history life as a human has presented it's difficulty's and solutions. with each solution comes an alternative difficulty. These tend to be the things we can see that are difficult. Like building a bridge, then maintaining the bridge. When we lived in forests or on the plains we had things we needed to overcome. We had to think about these things. The same ting would be thought about for years. The whole community or village would get involved with the thinking of a solution. we all had something to think about. We even invited our neighbours to help with the thinking and find solutions.

We had to think though. to make progress and advance we used our minds constantly. With time things would change and people would develop specialized skills and concentrate their efforts on that skill. People worked together without dissonance to achieve the things needed. Then came bigger community's with more specialized skills and an exchange of goods for services was created. We had less to think about and still the same amount of time to do the thinking.

All this thinking time going to waste, the mind has to think something. Without a challenge to overcome it idles and cuts out. This is a knock on the door many will open and invite in the dissonance to provide something to think about. This same thing has progressed through the ages. As we better ourselves as a community. we rate this on the things we can do not the people we are.

We accept these changes that provide a visual change and hinder at those for a social. Each time our physical world changes so does our social. Our social world tries to carry on without change though and an acceptance of it has always been like that. In truth it only got like that when the laws made it that way.

The mind like to think it needs to think. If we do not give it something positive to think about. It will find something to bitch about.

Dissonance is the social weapon of the dictator.