We do not understand each other anymore.
I blame education. Education teaches us terminology. In most cases we just remember what we are told that some word means, and afterward, we project it to the real world. Then we do not understand other people who use the same word but have a different teacher. Some people even have a life as a teacher, so their terminology is very much connected to reality, but is also quite different from what is taught in other education centers.
We are not thought how to communicate properly, or to want to understand others better, or how to try to ask questions to clarify terminology before we start arguing. In education, everything is just black and white, but in life words have a different shade of gray for everybody and are different for every day or mood.
We really need a change in education. We need to learn communication, meaningful communication, how not to initiate conflicts, how to want to understand each other. As what we have now will destroy our civilization if it is not already too late.
Teachers, tech kids to think about what they hear, to doubt they understood good and to ask questions to clarify meanings and definitions. Teach them that different languages means different ways of understanding the same words (when translated), so they do not fall in to the trap of conflict over misunderstood words.
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