I am just trying. Asking:
How to:
Hold on to your soul.
Be alarmed, but not so alarmed you cannot stay attentive to the complexity.
Be grounded but not get caught in any of the many rabbit holes of outrage usurping attention.
Meet this era --ready to be human to human.
Ready to reach beyond labels.

There are many ways communication moves beyond direct transmission. Most older cultures learned long ago direct transmission is inadequate, dangerous & reductive. To have been brought up in an era of assumption of what you say is what you mean has postponed skills of indirect in depth communication.