First Published on May 8, 2017

This one has been on my mind, and I ignore it, but it won’t go away. Social media is one of human’s best creations so far and has changed our lives, making it easy.

The dark sides exist, but that is a necessary evil. What bugs me is why conservative conversations don’t get attention as the others do.

The definition and synonyms given the conservative ideology itself doesn’t sink well with me. I do not think anybody who posts conservative thoughts on social media cares about the likes and sorts – but social media reactions translate to reach and vice versa.

All things being equal, the more people see your post, the greater the chances of reaction – likes, shares, comments. The more engagement you get mean, the more people have seen your post.

So, is it that people don’t care, or is someone blocking the message from reaching its target?

When I say conservative, I mean the left-wing and the right-wing combined, but not the folly centrism. When I say conservative, I don’t mean the double standard and extremist ideologies propagated by politicians in America, Europe, and other parts of the world.

As much as the priority is protecting your culture, economy, and things of interest, you should still be able to tolerate other cultures, trade with honor and integrity with others, and accord respect to other people’s interests. For the center to hold, the left and the right-wing must function together – for the center will fall should either or both fail.

The social media guys claim they have no hand in it and that it is a leveled playing field. So that leaves the scary part – people don’t care.

People don’t care about the injustices, people don’t care about the economic and cultural imperialism, people don’t care about the environmental sacrileges, and people don’t care about the human right of the millions violated by the very people tasked to protect them – people just don’t care about people?

No, I don’t want to believe that. People care about people, and I think they are just victims of circumstances. I think people want to love each other. People want to be at peace, but they are too busy trying to live.

Balanced information will awaken them to ask the right questions and demand the right things from authorities and their governments. Life becomes better, the mind is at rest, and peace prevails.

The human race has come far, and I believe we are at our optimum. We now have trains traveling at lightning speed. We communicate wirelessly, our minds have learned so much, and with our intelligent technology, we can make the world comfortable for every single human. We can make earth the heaven for all without regard to the God/god you worship or the color of your skin.

Anyone who doesn’t care about this or blocking this message from reaching the people, I say in Bob Marley’s words – “when the rain falls, it won’t fall on one man’s house.”