Showing posts with label Transparency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transparency. Show all posts

Monday, 26 October 2015

Men (of my generation) don’t cry

By Joan Escarrabill



Emotional training has changed over time. A part of the men of my generation were taught to contain their emotions. Men don’t cry. Publicly expressing certain emotions can be considered rude (or, worse, a weakness). Privacy (i.e. solitude) is the only space suitable for male emotions. The intimacy understood as a personal space that is never shared. Privacy is a right and, above all, a way of working. There are some things can only be the product of personal reflection, in the strictest privacy.

I know I simplify things. Maybe we should not talk about emotions and intimacy. Maybe we should talk about "privacy". But now there are a couple of phenomena related to digitizations that, at the very least, are at on the verge of privacy: the collective intelligence and transparency.

Collective intelligence challenges the individual reflection as a basic tool for understanding. Adding up is so powerful! Adding up from different perspectives gives unprecedented solutions to complex problems. But I will focus on transparency.

Facebook generation or my generation understand transparency differently. The generation of men who don’t cry understand transparency from a simple perspective "we must always tell the truth, but we don’t have to always tell it all" and the question is, "Can so much transparency become toxic?"