All week, I have had this question just constantly tugging at me. I could be walking to get coffee at work, or just washing the dishes after dinner, or laying there in bed ready to sleep, and the question just jumps in and dominates my thoughts. As individuals, are we becoming more positive when we talk? As I scan the web, or I join in the dialogue on social sites, or I just read stories on line, I see so many positive interest stories, they out number the traditional news reporting of isolated murders, natural disasters, and other bad news. I tend to have a smile on my face when I log off the computer After watching the evening news or reading the headline of the paper, I rarely smile.
Even though the economic news looks bad this last year, I still feel positive after being on the web. OK, you get your occasional idiots on line. But, they do not last long, and they get their appropriate shame and then they are drowned out by the surrounding positive talk and smiles of others. I think individuals and society tend toward the positive--sometimes they get drowned out by filters, well meaning people who edit and report the unique, which is normally bad stuff--because it is not unique to be positive. So, I think online talk tends to be positive, and that is good.
