Chey’s Lounge

Okay, I’ll admit the title of today’s post is inspired by my love of a good borderline rhyme. Niches, Choices, Voices. Nice ring to it. Voices. That could go a few different ways. We could discuss the greatest voices of our time, like Whitney Houston or Celine Dion. Maybe voices on the radio? Speaking of, it’s always so weird seeing the faces of radio personalities. Worse when they’re not ugly, like what the heck, what do you mean you don’t have a face for radio? Waste of a position for us uggos! I was leaning more towards a conversation with myself surrounding whose voices should be heard/amplified. If so, does that naturally suggest there are some that should be suppressed? I mean, yeah, probably! The problem is choosing who chooses it. 

Even if I don’t have the conversation today, it’s not bad to set myself up for it one day. I guess I’ve been doing a lot of setting up and asking of questions so far. I think it’s okay for now. I’m not the voice of our generation, so I can be a little discombobulated. It’s good find out where one’s own questions and shortcomings lie. Someone with a prominent voice should have those qualities. I feel like it’s possible people with the confidence to be a loud voice/leader may lack the humility to be so open about what areas they have deficiencies. I think it’s much more acceptable to speak out regrading topics one isn’t fully familiar with of the individual openly recognizes it. I think we as a society need to pressure those in higher places to do so more often, otherwise it just leads to a slippery slope of possible misinformation and the general populace formulating opinions based on this unreliable narrator. I guess it is up to us to de platform those who are spreading misinformation, but it’s sooo hard in such a divided society. Then we may start getting into questions of freedom of speech. From prior posts, my humble singular reader knows I am a big fan of the first amendment. Speaking of slippery slopes, I feel like we mostly need to allow free speech, even that which we don’t like. Even though I said mostly, I’m not a grant enough to think we should just allow anyone to say anything. But that’s where the choices question comes back into play: whose voices do we choose to accept?