Thread by @LetsGoCNote

I focus on INTP growth because many are being left behind and assuming or behaving as if they're broken, worthless, "absent-minded professors" incapable closing browser tabs.

I believe INTPs have the opportunity to influence what we see as genuinely good, beautiful and truthful.

This is especially so in a world that doesn't know how to honor truth in its search for opinions to express.

The internet has become junk food, having diluted its recipe of open world-wide internet to political boxed in and separated by sides exacerbated by algorithms that feed our own desire to be right above all things regardless of what is actually truth.

And many on the modern internet hadn't tasted what it was like before this opinion-focused emotional identity politics chaos.

Unaware that we're now eating unhealthy junk that simply satisfies the mental addictive taste buds seeking a righteous hit.

And social platforms benefit from shoving this junk food in our faces, so why would they care to change beyond adding "offense filters" when facts are not as interesting as op-eds and "hot takes."

Hot takes and op-eds expressing a helpless desire for change often contradiction values that are being expressed all while trying to look good for the cultural camera.

I'm not suggesting any of this is a single solution but one node in a system of cascading failures leading to intense loneliness, divisiveness, nihilism, pessimism, depression, anxiety, etc.

Somewhere along the way since the 60s the mission of flower power and peace on earth became overwhelming and shelved. Not sure why, but likely the world was moving too fast for a value system that moves pretty slow.

Endurance and persistence lost out to reacting closer and closer to real-time of a rapidly changing world.

So now it seems like a battle on two fronts. Short term reactionary putting out of fires and slow methodical strategic systems thinking integral defining of long term values and SYSTEMS-BUILDING as opposed to tear down.

Algorithms, AI, voice control, and social networks are going to remain big pillars of our future systems.

And who do you think is going to code those systems?

INTPs are writing these algorithms now.

The truth and defining the future is quite literally at their fingertips but without honoring or sharing what is provable truth to get a proper opinion, simply being egalitarian for the sake of it.

Missing the point of good and beautiful.

INTPs, with nurturing, can help us honor truth, goodness and beauty to redefine the remainder of this century whether through adjusting social platforms or something else altogether to better define the value we collectively point towards...because truth isn't it right now.

Development is envelopment, which means integrating lessons and truths of past. You may not like a truth but can honor and see its value. And seeing what it is, without judgement, can create greater opportunity to make informed decisions and formulate informed opinions.

Right now we're questioning whether or not anything is true.

There's endless room for denial, gaslighting, "fake news" and "alternative facts" to a situation.

This is a public terrible use of introverted thinking, a way of thinking which INTPs can better promote and design.

I say design because it's not as if we're going to make the world think like us. There are other personalities at play.

However, other personality types can't use their tools well either if the premise for their own truth is not sound.

Good design of algorithms and systems will automatically honor every individual truth and use of truth.

I'm angry because we can do better collectively.

I'm tired of the same words, all the talking. Get to work.

I'm not waiting for a savior in political, business, or spiritual form.

There's something bigger at stake and I'm hoping I can at least do my part via INTPs.

Protests and trolling aren't getting it done due to self-fellating of personal values and playing the victim at each other. Go forward with intentional and play the long game. Nothing will change over night.

We've spent a long time in an identity space, trying to hold space for feelings and "doing the right thing" but the "right thing" doesn't exist if truth is dismissed in service of feeling righteous or self-serving desires.

Truth cuts through that noise to create a solid foundation in which you can't reshape it to your own means.

Good design is seamless and isn't pushy against the conscious mind but shows the benefit to the unconscious mind with ease.

I'm hoping that with time, design, work, patience, endurance, persistence, and technology we can combine truth and design to usher in a more focused era of truly honoring each other because we know what's true and what isn't.

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