We need to communicate with one another in ways that give us the best chance of being a nation at Peace with itself and on a perpetual pathway toward safety, security, and mutual support in our communities.

Social media has a huge impact on us today. The various social media linkages we have today give us instinctive and functional interactions with one another that recreate the linkages we had for tens of thousands of years in the huts, the villages  and the caves that our people lived in for most of our existence as a species.

This level of interaction is not new. It is, in fact, a normal set of interactions that is we have experienced for most of our existence.

A family living in a pre-industrial cave interacted with each other in real time and with extreme immediacy because everyone was effectively in the cave together and in constant contact with one another. That set of connections and interactions felt good and right to people and seemed like the right way for us to interact and live because it was what we knew and lived with in our lives.

We have managed to recreate the immediacy of those connections by the millions today with Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, BlueSky, and Twitter variations — and people today tend to be very happy, involved, committed, and even addicted to having those links happening constantly in their lives.

People love their social media tools and connections.

People create communities and sub communities on each of those platforms and venues — and those communities have each evolved their own expectations, rules, community guidelines, interaction processes, and functional cultures using those tools as we use them today.

Those platforms and those connection tools create the opportunity for creative and positive interaction between people. They can make a major positive impact in people’s lives, and people often very much value and appreciate, and even enjoy their existence and use.

But —

Those same connection tools have a dark side, and they also can enable, facilitate, and support some extremely damaging and destructive behavior that we want to prevent and minimize in our settings and our lives.

Evil happens.

Sometimes evil people use those tools to do damage to other people in their scope and process, and the people doing the damage are sometimes hidden from sight and we sometimes have no way of having the evil and damaging people being identified or held accountable for the behavior and actions they chose to do to hurt other people.

People sometimes use the social media connections to hurt other people.

We need to manage our social media environment to reduce that kind of damage from being done to people by other people using those tools.

All of the major social media platforms that we use today have rules that apply to some aspects of the communication processes. We need those rules to be understood and clear. We need to use communication approaches that give us the best long-term likelihood of both group safety and inter group Peace.

We even have some experience and history of other nation states who want to damage us as a country having their people skillfully do damage to us in intentional ways.

We have kept sex out of the basic platforms and venues in very intentional ways to keep those issues and topics from diverting us from the other topics that are served well by internet involvement and use.

Sexual activity and topics need to be handled in the most positive and noninvasive ways by our expectations and our rules for each set of communications for the social media platforms and tools that we use for our primary social interactions.

We have very strong sexual instincts, and the people who run those mainstream tools and platforms that have the highest volume of use today have very wisely kept explicit sexual images and content from being a major factor in those general community social media sites. That's a good business decision for those sites and they will probably continue down those paths going forward.

The site owners of Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, BlueSky, and Twitter seem to believe and understand that they will face major community backlash and can put their status as a safe and desirable community site at risk if they allow sex to be explicit in those spaces.

There are many other platforms and sites on the internet that have sexual content.

Those sites and those tools have their own access levels, and they can make available various levels of sexual-related content to their customers and participants.

What we have somehow managed to achieve for the internet today for the community social media tools, is that the key platforms like TikTok and Instagram, have a very wide range of other content that share information and create communities, and those social media sites have great popularity and they obviously now have built extensive sets of followers without having sex be their topic or subject matter.

Podcasts Have Use as Well

Podcasts have their own use and functionality for our internet connectivity approaches, and those sites and tools have their own value as part of our overall connectivity strategy, approach, and agenda that can supplement the primary social media outlets and tools.

In addition to those mainstream standard social media linkage platforms, the internet has a rich array of podcasts on a wide range of topics, and some of the most popular podcasts currently have millions of followers and create their own sets of beliefs and issues that they discuss.

Joe Rogan has millions of followers, and the people who choose his site constantly get his thoughts and perspectives on real-time topics and issues.

There are many other podcasts with other points of view available as well, and that is good for the internet and our communities, because the wide array of podcast vehicles can, in total, create almost a golden age of communication tools that allow us to learn and to teach and to interact as people with one another and to be entertained in the process.

The podcasts and other internet thought pieces and presentations give us options for learning — and when we look at Peace issues, we need to sort through the options available to us and we should each pick the ones that give us the best opportunity to grow and learn, and even communicate with one another.

We tend to use podcasts that support our current ideological or social beliefs, and we will probably each have opportunities for intellectual and emotional growth and expansion if we also periodically look at the podcasts that have other perspectives and beliefs just for the opportunity that they give us for learning and for context building information.

We also have choices involving the old media venues, organizations, and sites that can give us access to good information on a timely basis.

The old news media has not disappeared, and those organizations and tools that come from those old communication stalwarts and giants can also be of service today as we conduct our lives and aspire to learn if we look at what those organizations and services are offering now.

The old traditional news media very much want to survive as businesses and as communication vehicles, and they're each actively involved in creating their own internet linkages. The New York Times and Washington Post, and similar organizations, continue to publish newspapers and they now have extremely active internet tools — and some of their sites now can give almost real-time coverage of some events and happenings.

When major debates happen in the political world, the anchor media from those old media sites can both broadcast the debate live and have their own set of experts and sources offering insight into the process and the speakers in real time.

The traditional and anchor electronic news networks do the same thing.

CNN, NBC, and Fox News also all have their real-time internet tools, and people who believe that any of those communication teams are credible and useful can easily find links to those sites on the internet.

They're all competing for our time and web linkages.

This Could be a Golden Age of Web Communication

We have the opportunity to link to wide ranges of sites that we trust and prefer, and we can do it in real time with almost no expense and with easy connection approaches for many of the sites. Each linkage has its virtues, interests, functions, and even charm.

The TikTok community has many interesting levels of connections, and there are levels of interaction within that venue that people love, value, and build on for informing their lives.

Instagram has internal groupings, and the algorithms that channel sales opportunities to us in that setting can also work to channel flows of data about the topics we find most interesting for our own learning and awareness levels.

The algorithm sorting that meets the needs of the buyer in those venues also now tends to give us our own search engines for finding and sharing information that we want to learn and see.

Facebook is brilliant at connecting people into relevant groupings and topics that make us feel good about being Facebook users.

That isn’t a bad thing to do, because feeling good about interacting is one of the human traits that we want to encourage, support, and even enable — and each of those social media trains are directionally correct in bringing us together.

Bluesky links are newer and developing and they will probably evolve down pathways that look a lot like the approaches of the other platforms.

Bluesky was created in part to give people an alternative to Twitter when Twitter was so clearly and intentionally politicized and started incorporating anger into their connection tool kit at a main component of the process and context. Twitter is now clearly intended to do negative things and to celebrate doing them with itself for the people who choose to get their information from them as a source.

There was a time when everyone went to Twitter to get current and even true information about breaking news and various developments. It very obviously and intentionally no longer fuels that information flow, and millions of people have left it for that reason. Blue Sky and some other options to Twitter exist, and we should use them.

The Web Is a Magnificent Marketplace

A major point for us all to remember is that the web functions as one of the best markets and the best marketplaces ever created.

We can now very easily buy things on the web. That functionality also returns us to a set of interactions that our ancestors experienced in the villages and family hut collections and settings that served us for tens of thousands of years as our way of buying and selling things we needed for our lives.

It’s actually interesting and useful to understand that the same kinds of purchasing approaches that we each felt in the primal villages and in the caves and huts, where we lived for eons, have their functional equivalency with the various web tools that sell us things now on the internet.

We have amazing market power today linked to our phones and computers that support a vast market economy that's changing daily to meet the needs of people who want to sell things and buy things in real time.

That can be a kind of golden age of connections, that support those purchasing processes. It can be interesting and fun and even almost addictive at various levels to be able to acquire things on the internet and to have that process steer parts of our lives.

That entire set of internet connections and interactions and processes isn’t a bad thing. We enjoy the linkages and the opportunities, and we should build on the best features of those tools because people love them now — and it isn’t bad to help people do things that they love to do, as long as they don’t’ hurt other people while doing them.

We need to have the ability to enforce and enable the various kinds of purchasing events that happen on the various websites so that people don’t get cheated when they buy things.

The internet has managed to police itself fairly well relative to some of those risks, processes, and issues.

Amazon has its own market enforcement processes that allow us to purchase with comfort knowing that the product will be there and that it will appear in our homes if we make the right sets of decisions to make a purchase and use the processes that Amazon has created to achieve those goals.

Each of the other social media approaches that also make sales directly from their sites also have their own internal structures and approaches that allow us to have comfort that when we buy something, it will cost what we think it costs, and it will appear on our personal home site on the time frame that we expect it to appear.

Again, that whole set of functions very much resembles, echoes, and even duplicates our primal communities and markets, where we interacted with the vendors in each market and we paid them for whatever we decided to purchase from them at the point of sale and took possession of whatever we purchased at that point in time.

The internet has an extremely effective internal policing mechanism for those purchases, because when we are unhappy as a customer, we can express that unhappiness in effective and almost immediate ways — and the owners of Instagram and TikTok and other social media platforms have a strong incentive for us to be happy customers so that they can continue to thrive themselves as businesses in those settings.

We can do purchases well now, and we are also learning how to get the best information about other aspects of our world from the various internet tool kits and tools available to us.

We need to be able to make good decisions as well as good purchases.

We Need Good Information in Real Time

As we go forward, we need to figure out how to get good information about the world around us in real time, and we probably should each figure out credible sources of information that we can each and all use for those purposes to help us manage our lives and understand our world.

We have been intentionally misled.

The most recent election was replete with misleading information from a wide set of sources.

We have had many people misleading us at various levels during the most recent election process. We need to figure out who and what we can trust going forward for our next round of political activity.

We need to sort through the various data sources relevant to us and ask them to give us their best products and the most effective approaches to keep us well and currently informed.

We should give CNN and Fox News and the Washington Post and the other traditional media vendors who used to have strong sets of ethical standards about accuracy and truth all the opportunity to keep us informed — and we should check out whose perspective on the news items we trust at the highest levels by looking at what those sources make available to us, and by using our own social media information flows to discern both accuracy and truth on multiple issues that affect our lives.

The glory of the internet is that we can get a mass flow of immediate information at various points in time, and that information flow can compete for our attention and serve our functioning needs in various areas by giving us useful information that we can access and use in real time.

We need to go beyond that immediate access to purchases and we should each very intentionally do some things that increase the possibility of getting access to true and useful information as part of our Peace strategy for America.

You can do something important relative to truth.

We Need a Truth Agenda for the Country

We should start a new Truth Agenda for the country.

We should each commit to truth.

To make that commitment a functional possibility, we should each make a commitment at a very basic level to one aspect and to one key component of truth.

It can be done — because there is an achievable, explicit, direct, and universally understandable and clear commitment to truth that we can each make.

We can each agree not to say something that we know is not true when we say it.

That particular and explicit commitment is understandable, basic, achievable, and it is actually and totally within our own control.

We should each agree in our lives when discussing or presenting news-related or situational information ourselves to other people to never personally say something that we know is not true at the time we say it.

That is a very important and perhaps game-changing commitment, because far too many of our political and community discussions have had people say or repeat something that we and they knew was not true at the time we said it — and people did not feel guilty or wrong saying the untrue thing, because our side in that setting benefited from the untruth, and having our side benefit in that moment was our goal and our standard and our only criteria for success.

We can change that approach. We are each in full control of that process because it is actually and explicitly about what we each say, and we each control what we say.

We have control over what we say.

That expectation to not say something that we know isn’t true at the time we say it should be the new normal.

We should not say something that we know personally is not true at the time we say it.

We don’t need information perfection, or even absolute accuracy about every point at the time we make them, but we should be absolutely clear and we should each be completely committed to never say something that we know ourselves is not true at the point when we say it.

It’s an easy fix for part of a complex problem and it’s easy because we are each saying what is being said.

That commitment and that practice restores us to a level of ethical communication and ethical and moral interaction, expectation, behavior, and practice that was a foundation of our country.

That was clearly and actually a foundational belief for a very long time.

We took great pride in saying true things.

Truth was our standard and our expectation and our commitment and our goal. People were deeply insulted and offended if anyone said they said something that was not true.

That approach involves and creates self-respect.

We show and we earn and build self-respect at an important level when we only say things that are true. We can be proud of being a person who makes truth a value and a behavior.

We also show and create a high level of respect for whoever we're interacting with when we only say things that are true to them.

America used to have truth as a core value.

America used to have truth as an expectation.

America used to have truth as our only level of interaction with ourselves and with the people in our various settings.

We should make that personal commitment.

We can make it and we can hold ourselves to it because we are in full control of what we say.

Then we should increase our leverage and impact, and we should each ask our leaders to say true things as well.

Our leaders want to lead us and they want our support and alignment, and we can tell them that we want them to not say anything they know is not true in their interactions with us. And we should say that will be the basic commitment we need from them in order for us to support and accept them as our leader.

We also should ask our various social media people and our news media people to not every say anything to us that they know is not true at the point they say it.

We can change the culture in pieces by changing pieces of the culture.

On the social media chain of information for each of us, we need each of us to say that we want the truth to be a key part and a key link in that chain, and we should let people know when we believe that they've violated that rule as part of our participation in that string of communications and we should tell people we prefer that they say true things.

We Should Make Truth Be an Expectation for Leaders and Media

Part of that will be an easy sale, because many people hold other people to truth as a standard now in many social media interactions, and people in various venues and settings often collectively criticize and attack anyone saying obviously untrue things in that context and setting.

Truth of some kind is actually an underlying expectation for most social media chains, and people become angry and unhappy now when someone tells them things that they know were obviously not true.

The most obvious exception to that group expectation to do true things and to say true things is when we're doing our basic tribal Us-Them thinking, and when we've decided that other people who are not in our tribe in that setting are a Them and don’t need to be told the truth by us.

We too often lie to Them and we too often feel no guilt because They aren’t in our tribal group. That’s’ an unfortunate behavior pattern we see in too many places, and we need to understand it and correct it now.

Us-Them thinking in a setting with those instincts in gear is often very damaging — and we need to minimize the times that we allow that level of thinking and those values to skew our thoughts and emotions as communities and as a nation.

Let’s replace those behaviors and untrue statements with truth.

Let’s make the conscious decision to not say things that we know are not true to Them. We can get a long way down the path to inter group Peace and to trust between groups if we go down that path of saying things that are true in our inter group settings.

We should aim toward win-win results and toward win-win interactions in a very intentional and explicit way.

We need to figure out win-win outcomes for every setting. We are fortunate to basically live in a world of plenty, where we don’t need to have the other side lose in order for our side to win, and we should be able to figure out how to have the people in each setting have their legitimate wins and positive outcomes happen now and going forward from now.

We should make that an expectation of our social Media interactions.

We should make inter group Peace and community-based beneficial results our goal and our strategy and our plan, and our commitment to ourselves and to each other.

Five Paths to Peace

There are five things we should do as next steps for Peace:

1: The first thing we need to do is to get the intelligencia of our country and of each setting we are in to know and understand that we're creatures of instincts and that we can rise to more enlightened levels of behavior if we understand those instincts and if we steer them down peaceful pathways in intentional and effective ways.

We have instincts to be territorial, hierarchical, tribal, and protective of our own group and family, and those instincts steer how we think, and steer our emotions at multiple levels.

The Institute for InterGroup Understanding has written books and multiple training and thought pieces on those issues, and ties them to an overarching package that contains quantum physics, quantum biology, quantum sociobiology, quantum consciousness, and quantum metaphysics — with our cultures and interactions embedded in the quantum sociobiology part of that package.

The books are available from Amazon and can be read free electronically from the inter group website.

2: The second thing we need to do to build and sustain Peace is to use the full set of instinct-related tools in each setting. We need to figure out how to use those instincts and tools in every setting, and we can build multiple pathways to Peace across the board in many settings with those tools in hand.

We have a wide range of tools for peace that are available on the Institute website and in those books, and we should use them to learn and guide our thoughts in that space.

We should use the social media links that we each have to share that information with other people who we want to share in building, supporting, Peace.

3: The third thing we can do to create intergroup Peace is to take the tools and the teaching and to use our various social media settings and linkages  and our communities and personal friends and family linkages as Peace opportunities and venues and to do the right thing with each other in each setting to build positive settings, outcomes, and Peace.

Our various social media linkages can support win-win outcomes and interactions and can help us both understand each other and optimize the likelihood of Peace for us all.

4: The fourth thing we need to do is to create linkages that support Peace.

We need to build on our social media platforms and tools and encourage TikTok Peace coalitions and Instagram and Facebook Peace linkages that people enjoy and that people find easy and even fun to use.

Each of those venues encourages and enables collective and shared linkages, and we can slip Peace messages and Peace information into the information flow for each linkage to help people accept and even protect one another in being positively aligned.

We need to build safe and credible data and information flows that get us to the right outcomes.

We need to ask Fox News and CNN to not say anything they know is not true at the time they say it — and we need to ask each of the news outlets and social media platforms to have their audiences asking for true things from their sites.

The Institute for Inter Group Understanding will have both Instagram and Bluesky sites with the Institute label, with support for brain development for young children and for enlightened instinctive behavior, and the institute will try to offer some input into key situations where it might be useful to have current and additional information through postings on those sites.

Pull up all of those links if you are interested in a broad perspective on those issues and want to steer in the most positive and beneficial directions.

5: The fifth thing that might be useful for creating Peace will be to ask people who are looking at Peace issues and thinking about various community development in various settings to have AI directly and explicitly supporting the Peace process in direct ways.

Ask AI to Support Peace

We should have the Peace initiatives and various thought pieces on the website added to any artificial intelligence (AI) work that you do on related behaviors.

Your AI thinking can be enhanced by having the Peace agenda, values, and information added to the thought process for AI thinking.

Peace hasn’t been an AI knowledge base or skill set, so you can have that tool with a link to the Institute website and to the Institute Peace books for those purposes.

AI will be smarter if we load the thought process with information about instinctive behaviors, cultures, tribes, developmental issues, and the kinds of values that we want included in our strategies and approaches.

For people now using AI and looking at any kind of problem areas, these Peace Thoughts might be useful.

And these thoughts on the Truth Agenda might be useful.

And this context for the Four Paradigms of Existence might be useful.

We need Peace.

Let’s have AI support that process.

Make your social media tools and links as useful as you can for achieving that goal, and make peace a goal of any planning you do for any setting.

We have quantum physics. quantum biology, quantum instincts, quantum sociobiology, and quantum consciousness as part of a package and a very intentional set of gifts and tools that we've been given as stewards of this planet.

Let’s be great stewards and let’s have a safe and lovely ride with AI as one of the gifts enabling our success.

Welcome to the Peace Movement for our world.