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Push + Pull

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Closing the page is the easiest way to abort a pop-up advertisement.

When someone behaves in a pushy manner, I immediately react with pulling away (or “back”?).

I feel violated in my attempt to gain information. Ironically, the suggestion backfires by resulting in less engagement instead of more engagement.

Therefore push and pull can be interpreted as opposite forces, but they can also be interpreted as completely aligned … insofar as both may motivate the reader / consumer to abort the process, to shut down, abandon, leave, … to disengage.

Support from others can make difficult periods easier and good moments more meaningful, but it can’t replace the internal work that each individual has to do for themselves

Keywords: boundaries , Happiness , blog , blogging , boundaries , Experiences , happiness , happy , inspiration , life , thoughts

This doesn’t mean kindness should disappear. Offering support, listening when someone is struggling and being there during difficult moments are all part of caring about the people in your life. There will be times, however, when someone repeatedly finds themselves in a situation that makes them unhappy but still chooses not to change it. Help can be given, suggestions can be shared and resources can be pointed out, yet the decision to act on them has to inevitably come from the person living that reality. Continuing to worry about how to fix something that they aren’t ready to change only leads to frustration, and it places responsibility in the wrong place.

https://suzie81speaks.com/2026/04/02/youre-not-responsible-for-someone-elses-happiness

Ask them to convince you and mean it

Keywords: Politics , Social Media , Internet Time Machine , Identity , Internet Culture

I implore you to seek out your opposite. When you hear someone cite “facts” that don’t support your viewpoint don’t think “that can’t be true!” Instead consider, “Hm, maybe that person is right? I should look into this.”

https://seanblanda.com/the-other-side-is-not-dumb (NOTE — Keywords were only listed @ “original source”: humanparts.medium.com/the-other-side-is-not-dumb-2670c1294063 )

That article is now over 10 years old. A few months ago, this point of view was apparently invalidated:

Keywords: Columns , Criminal law , Free Speech

Kirk came up with the brilliant idea of challenging liberals to simply debate issues from abortion to immigration. His group would go to campuses and invite debate with signs reading “prove me wrong” and encourage liberals to engage in dialogue rather than violence.

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/09/11/prove-me-wrong-charlie-kirks-final-challenge-on-free-speech

I discovered the first article after doing some sleuthing after following a dead link in another article I reviewed yesterday (see “I want to help youth and young adults” [ https://wants.blog/2026/02/02/i-want-to-help-youth-and-young-adults ] ). I discovered the second article after doing some more sleuthing regarding Charlie Kirk’s “Prove Me Wrong” events.

I admit that I am more convinced by the second article than I am by the first one. I feel that going out on a limb remains courageous.

See also: “The End of Objectivity” [ https://socio.business.blog/2026/01/25/the-end-of-objectivity ]

Sydney Sweeney and Her Fiction

Please note that (in case you wish to comment or reply to this post / article) my pronoun is “Boss“.

I wrote about the Sydney Sweeney story in the news a while back — see “On the Internet …” [ https://socio.business.blog/2025/08/01/on-the-internet ].

Yesterday one of my colleagues shared this article with me:

(Roughly) Daily

“It is even more urgent that we learn to look passionately and technically at stories, if only to protect ourselves from the false and manipulative ones being circulated among us.”*…

https://roughlydaily.com/2025/09/27/it-is-even-more-urgent-that-we-learn-to-look-passionately-and-technically-at-stories-if-only-to-protect-ourselves-from-the-false-and-manipulative-ones-being-circulated-among-us

While I enjoy the imagery used, I find that there is too little criticism of fake and false narratives used to sell crap to suckers. (See also my own writings about “suckers” and “sucker” mentality, etc.)

They do it with their friends

As a drunk waitress, you’re one of us — you’re a human, and humans, there’s are a lot of people that have opinions or ideas on things, they’re just not good at articulating it (or they never learned how to articulate it). But everyone does what we do (or everybody can do what we do) — they do it with their friends, they talk with their friends, they bullshit about stuff … and, you know, it’s just a process of putting it out there.

JRE 2270 Bridget Phetasy [ 1:58:12 – 1:58:39 ]

For more about publicacy, see “What is Publicacy + Why does it Matter?” [ https://socio.business.blog/2024/04/29/what-is-publicacy-why-does-it-matter ]

For more about mainstream milieus, see “Mainstream Milieus” [ https://socio.business.blog/2025/02/01/mainstream-milieus ]

For more about reliable sources of information concerning thought, ideas, opinions, etc. see “Rational Media” [ https://phlat.design.blog/2024/01/14/rational-media ]

Fortunately writing doesn’t require an audience

Keywords: miscellaneous

There is a little bit of narcissism required to be a writer, to believe that people actually give a shit about what you think. And after the publishing of my book, with the podcasts and the interviews and the speeches I’ve given, I’ve come to realize that people read my words and still don’t understand me. Perhaps because they project their own experiences into the writing, perhaps because so much time has passed that I am no longer the person who wrote that book/those words, or perhaps because I am such a shit writer that I can’t express myself well enough to be understood. It feels like a mixture of all three of those possibilities. By the time you read these words, I’ll already not be the person who wrote them. I’ll have hopefully grown, and I’ll have moved on. And there is acceptance in knowing that the words I write are ephemeral to me. Too bad the people who read my words are seemingly locked into the space and time in which they are written.

https://bambooandbananas.org/on-writing