Breaking Order (Eng-Spa) | Day 1181: 5 Minute Freewrite

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Greetings, everyone

This is my daily 5min #Freewrite for @mariannewest's Day 1181: 5 Minute Freewrite: Thursday - Prompt: fragile things. Details here.

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Breaking Order

What a fragile thing freedom is!
How glassy the foundation that holds the weight of so many seekers.
It cracks and moans with every step, every move, every breath we take.
But freedom is not the only fragile thing these days. The forces that move goods and services and which used to be oppressive and implacable, now shake like a tower of champagne glasses at the slightest social media announcement.
A game of Jenga looks more stable in comparison.
A Twit by an anonymous bird can make Markets collapse or stocks skyrocket.

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How fragile is our tolerance for differences. It used to be color and religion.
Now opinions can cause unemployment, havoc, and even death.
We used to be stronger; made of stones and metals; but they were not shiny enough or malleable enough.
How fragile our opinions are; flapping around with every fashionable or politically-correct wind!
We seem to have found a great material to hold clay-feet idols and volatile ideals.
Too bad is such a fragile veneer.
We’ve all become fragile things, easily defeated by invisible enemies and fears.

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Rompiendo el orden

¡Qué frágil es la libertad!
Qué vidriosa la base que soporta el peso de tantos buscadores.
Se agrieta y gime con cada paso, cada movimiento, cada aliento que tomamos.
Pero la libertad no es lo único frágil en estos días. Las fuerzas que mueven bienes y servicios y que solían ser opresivas e implacables, ahora tiemblan como una torre de copas de champán ante el menor anuncio en las redes sociales.
Un juego de Jenga parece más estable en comparación.
Un Twit de un pajarito anónimo puede hacer que los mercados colapsen o que las acciones se disparen.

Cuán frágil es nuestra tolerancia a las diferencias. Solía ​​ser el color o la religión.
Ahora las opiniones pueden causar desempleo, estragos e incluso muerte.
Solíamos ser más fuertes; hechos de piedras y metales; pero no lo suficientemente brillantes ni lo suficientemente maleables.
Cuán frágiles son nuestras opiniones; aleteando con cada viento de moda o políticamente correcto!
Parece que hemos encontrado un gran material para contener ídolos de pies de barro e ideales volátiles.
Lástima que sea un barniz tan frágil.
Todos nos hemos convertido en cosas frágiles, fácilmente derrotables por enemigos y miedos invisibles.

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Hi hlezama,

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Thanks for the support.
You too have a great day

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Nice write up. It talks about our foundation right?

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Thanks.
Well, I was thinking about the fragility of all societies. The whole world seems to be in a state of constant change, not exactly positive.
No political system or economy seems stable; no set of values seem coherent enough to withstand the relativity of is imposed by the media.

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Exactly, the world is constantly changing and some of these changes ain't positive, but we just have to adapt to it.

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I guess there's always a negative side to everything. Somewhere 'opinions' wreck havoc. And somewhere 'opinions' helped some persons get justice.

I hope we find a way to move towards the positive aspect.

Nice write-up.

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Sure. I think that opinions in general are a good thing, I mean, the freedom to express them. Even if these opinions are detrimental to social progress, it is good to know who stands for what.
I was just thinking about how easily societies fall in chaos or violence because their members are unable to manage difference; how fragile tolerance is.
But there are always good things going on somewhere, of course.

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Yeah. I get that. People get easily swayed and when a negative opinion spreads like wildfire the consequences are always too brutal.

Do have a nice day.
😊

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