Crisis reveals your filter
Crisis reveals to us our filters. Filters are the lenses we use to view the world and are directly tied to our sense of self. Social media is a great place to “filter watch”.
By observing someone’s filters you can see their greatest fears.
I’ve tried on many filters throughout my life. You could always tell by how I was interpreting current events, and the meaning I concocted, as a result of what I feared most.
There was the:
1.) The conspiratorial filter: This was tied to my identity as being someone who sought the truth. Behind everything, there was a plot, a deeper meaning, a hidden agenda (not readily seen by those unwilling to take the deeper, harder look). This was tied to my fear of the truth being withheld from me and the fear it would never be fully attainable.
2.) The freedom filter: This came from identifying as someone who was fiercely independent and in full control. Everything was seen as attempts by big government, big corporations, big pharma, big religion, big money to rob me– and us– of our freedoms. This stemmed from a fear of feeling out of control and wanting to be truly free.
The truth is that for many, like me, it takes a crisis to fully examine our filters and see them for what they truly are — not reality itself, but simply a way of looking at it. In moments like these, we can try on new lenses, realize that our software is malleable and our eyes can adjust. And maybe we discover in the process we’ve been living our lives nearsighted the whole time. Or maybe we have a moment like those videos where someone sees color for the first time and realizes the beauty which has been there the whole time.
