Each of us is provided with a thinking mind, of which, those thoughts that come to us, though not all of them, are subsequently displayed through our activities, words, and interactions, so of. What makes thoughts unique, as compared to something like the words that we actually speak, is that none of us expresses every single thought that we have to other people, for a lot of reasons, such as inappropriateness, discretion, time constraints, and overall civility. While it is true, that some of the thoughts that we don’t express could be beneficial for those that we engage with, it is also true that they could be hurtful. Further to the point, there are those thoughts that are absolutely private to us, that we wish to divulge to no one at any time, which is our prerogative and our unalienable right.
Not too surprisingly, any person or entity that somehow was able to know our thoughts, and in particular, those thoughts that we considered to be those that we desired to share with no one, would then, in effect, have a great deal of control over us, in the sense of them being able to embarrass us, to compromise us, to harm us, and to shame us. After all, when we think of human nature, what piques the interest of so many other people, is typically not so much that which is good and beneficial; but rather that which helps makes the other, feel superior to the person so being examined and exposed, of which, they then take a perverse pleasure in seeing that person squirm and feel inadequate. So too, those that aren’t satisfied with just somebody feeling uncomfortable, are often adept at making a particular embarrassing or compromising situation for the other, far worse, by disseminating such in a way and manner that is typically marked for maximum social shame.
Fortunately, as it stands today, our thoughts are our own, though with the way hi-technology is working, in particular when the brain is being scientifically monitored, or our eye activity is being carefully scanned, presents the opportunity for those so doing this monitoring, to know our feelings about a given particular subject matter with a high degree of accuracy. Additionally, we live in a social media world, in which, those that use their social media as if it is their best friend -- thereby post, like, and comment on all sorts of things, throughout each and every day, which permits those that host these social media sites, an incredible amount of insight into who and what they really are. The problem that this so presents is that the amount of actionable information about those people that are the most consistent and the most engaged users of social media, is that their life and who and what they really are, is thereby known with a very high degree of accuracy.
This thus signifies that those that are fully known by others, are thereby highly susceptible to being possibly placed into the unenviable position of suffering from sarcasm, embarrassment, shaming, and targeting meant to belittle them, of which, there often appears to be no escape from such a form of harassment, once so started. That is to say, though certain others are not yet able to read our mind, they are though able to read and to see all that we have done and posted upon, and those with bad intentions can hurt us, very, very badly.