The Second String Debate Team

Modernity has brought forth technological advancements that still seem like the work of science fiction, even as we live in their midst. Despite these marvelous inventions and advancements that we have proven capable of creating, humans continue to prove that we are somehow incapable using new technology for anything other than promoting our own innate need for tribalism.  

Our tribes no longer resemble that of our ancestors. Our predecessors lived in tribes that were rooted in communal interests, well-being, and love for one another. As we have developed as a species and expanded outside of the parameters of traditional human life, we have abandoned the beneficial parts of tribalism. Such as, devotion to the preservation and betterment of one another and an understood need for unity, in order to prevent collapse. Comfort, technology, and complacency have replaced these values with misguided devotions that are designed to simply preserve rather than flourish our ways of living. We are still tribal beings. That portion of us is deeply imbedded in our DNA. However, we have regressed from our original humanitarian notions. And we have successfully divided ourselves into one of two polarizing options of tribes. The right or the left. And for the most part, we have defended our tribes from the safety and comfort of our digital pantheon. The internet.

The internet is a toxic and vile cesspool of opinions and assholes. Millions of people, screaming out for attention and validation in the name of their chosen tribe. An endless supply of millennial ideologies colliding against one another for no other reason than to make noise. The internet is a place of polarizing opinions and skewed facts. A wasteland of worldviews that are being pressed, squeezed, crammed, and manipulated in order to fit the specific views of either the right or the left. The internet is the safe haven for everyone’s confirmation bias.

But the internet is also very dichotomous. The same aforementioned cesspool also hosts a collection of brilliant people, literature, photographs, films, philosophies, history and so much more. It can be a place used to perpetuate intellect, knowledge, and wisdom if you’re willing to get a little uncomfortable. One cannot look at all of the world’s information and still see the problems we face as solvable by adherence and allegiance to either the right or the left.

However, we here at this publication are also digital attention sluts. And we are ready to make some noise of our own. And we make no qualms about this. Honesty and self-awareness are the principle factors that we use to curate and distribute information to anyone willing to digest our material. The difference between us and many others is where our tribal notions reside. We exist on the outskirts off the right and the left. We like to live right in between the two bubbles of thought that encapsulate the mass ideologies and influence the world around us. Aside from observing, we do the only other thing we can from our position. We highlight the absurdity.

We converse with one another. We share ideas without the restriction of political bias and a distaste for the practices of either side. And we laugh at the state off the world because that is all we can do for now. This is not another blog or podcast being fueled a collection of opinionated people trying to persuade the thinking of others in the name of anyone else’s beliefs. Or even worse, we are not trying to save the world from behind a keyboard. Frankly, that just seems arduous and time consuming. We do our very best to avoid the self-indulged, self-righteous indignations that only cause cringe reactions, at all costs. 

So, if you are sick and tired of the way the world looks, may we offer you a solution. Try stepping away from the mainstream and observe the world with us for a bit. Step away from the varsity players on the left and the right and see if you like the way things look over here, as a part of The Second String Debate Team.