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🧭 Introduction:
Understanding what is happening in our rapidly changing world—marked by the rise of social media—has become a real challenge. To gain clarity, we must look back, returning to the social foundations established three or four centuries ago. These foundations were known, lived, and most importantly, passed on by our grandparents and great-grandparents. They were rooted in one essential principle: respect for living together peacefully.
At that time, both family and community education emphasized respectful behavior, courtesy, shared responsibility, and care for others. Everyone understood that to live well in society, one needed to maintain harmonious relationships with neighbors, show tolerance, and know how to engage in dialogue. People learned to listen, to add nuance, and to show empathy, because social peace was understood to depend above all on the quality of human interactions.
Today, that foundation seems to have crumbled. People distrust one another. Many have unconsciously become the virtual enemy of their neighbor. Communication has collapsed. A kind message can easily provoke a sharp or even hostile response. Constructive dialogue has given way to impulsive reactions, emotional outbursts, and ordinary aggression. Our social fabric is unraveling due to a lack of solid roots.
And since today’s parents are no longer educating their children for social life, the very foundation of a peaceful society is collapsing. Schools, left alone to deal with this gap, are struggling to fill the void. And understandably so: who is responsible for teaching children how to live together? Parents? Schools? Both? Regardless of who should, it must be done.
In a world disrupted by the internet, by the immediacy of social media, and now, the exponential rise of artificial intelligence, it is urgent to reintroduce the basics of social coexistence. Without them, our understanding of the world becomes shaky, superficial, emotional—and sometimes dangerous.
Looking Back: #ReverseTHINKing to Understand Today’s World
At first glance, the idea of “looking back” may seem outdated, even regressive. And yet, in a world speeding forward without always knowing where it’s headed, taking a pause and looking back becomes necessary to better understand the present. This is the essence of the #ReverseTHINKing concept: an invitation to deconstruct modern automatisms, to question our mental frameworks, in order to rediscover the essential foundations for a healthier understanding of our current reality.
This backward look is not a rejection of progress—it is an act of clarity. To understand the pitfalls of our digital society—aggressive communication, loss of empathy, extreme polarization, and rejection of otherness—we need to revisit the mechanisms of the past, when common sense, mutual respect, careful listening, and prudence in human relationships were still cultivated.
#ReverseTHINKing is not a nostalgic retreat into the past, but an educational and reflective approach. It helps us separate what is truly valuable from what has led us into a fragmented, noisy, and often incoherent society. It’s a tool for unlearning destructive automatisms and rebuilding a critical, responsible mindset grounded in solid human values.
Understanding today’s world doesn’t mean following trends blindly. It means questioning, seeing differently, and connecting the dots between past, present, and future. And that begins with one simple, pedagogical step back—the very act that defines #ReverseTHINKing.
Why the Past Sheds Light on the Present
In our collective obsession with progress and novelty, we’ve forgotten something essential: the present only exists in relation to the past. What we experience today—individualism, loss of direction, verbal violence, misinformation—are direct consequences of a slow erosion of values once transmitted.
Past societies weren’t perfect, but they were structured around shared social codes. Words had weight, the experience of elders was valued, and conflicts were managed with a sense of proportion. School, family, and the local community formed a powerful educational triad.
Today, that intergenerational link is broken. Without a collective memory, without a guiding thread, understanding becomes blurred. #ReverseTHINKing offers a way to reactivate this memory—not to replicate the past, but to draw lessons from it and find stable anchors that help us better understand our disrupted present.
Modern Mental Shortcuts We Must Unlearn
We now live in the era of mental shortcuts: we comment without reading, react without thinking, judge with a single click. These behaviors are not neutral—they shape how we think and how we see the world. The immediacy imposed by social networks has replaced reflection, and the need to be right has overtaken the desire to understand.
#ReverseTHINKing acts as a pedagogical brake on these mental reflexes. It encourages us to ask:
- Why am I reacting this way?
- Is this grounded or purely emotional?
- Am I able to hear an opposing viewpoint without getting angry?
- What are the sources behind what I believe I know?
Unlearning doesn’t mean erasing what we know. It means deconstructing toxic reflexes to make room for more nuanced, empathetic, and rational thinking. In short, it’s about re-educating our relationship with the world.
Applying #ReverseTHINKing in Education and Social Life
Schools can—and must—become places where this critical distance is practiced. Transmitting knowledge is no longer enough: we must teach students how to think differently.
#ReverseTHINKing becomes a full-fledged pedagogical tool. We could imagine, for example:
- Workshops for deconstructing common assumptions
- Exercises in active listening and empathy
- Guided debates where students must defend an opposing viewpoint
- Intergenerational projects where young people meet elders to rebuild human connections
In society at large, this principle can also apply to media, the workplace, and community organizations. Because any society that doesn’t take the time to reflect on its automatisms becomes a slave to its collective impulses.
#ReverseTHINKing thus becomes essential to reclaim control over our attention, our choices, and our digital autonomy.
To better understand this concept, see also: #ReverseTHINKing — Learning to Unlearn in Order to Rebuild Better
🧠 One Last Thought to End On
What if we reactivated the filter between our ears—also known as the “brain”—to get those grey cells moving again? 😉
Related links, tutorials:
https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2025/03/09/chatgpt-free-for-windows-desktop-users-part-73/
Check ALSO my Curation and EDU-related articles on my Blog
- https://www.scoop.it/topic/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=AI
- https://www.scoop.it/topic/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments?tag=AI
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ChatGPT FREE for Windows Desktop users, Part 38
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| L’auteur Gust MEES est Formateur andragogique / pédagogique TIC, membre du “Comité Conseil” de “Luxembourg Safer Internet” (LuSI), appelé maintenant BEESECURE, partenaire officiel (consultant) du Ministère de l’éducation au Luxembourg du projet ”MySecureIT“, partenaire officiel du Ministère du Commerce au Luxembourg du projet ”CASES” (Cyberworld Awareness and Security Enhancement Structure).. The author Gust MEES is ICT Course Instructor, ”Member of the Advisory Board” from “Luxembourg Safer Internet” (LuSI), BEESECURE, Official Partner (Consultant) from the Ministry of Education in Luxembourg, project “MySecureIT“, Official Partner from the Ministry of Commerce in Luxembourg, project “CASES” (Cyberworld Awareness and Security Enhancement Structure). |
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EDU: Digital CitiZENship, CyberSecurity, eSkills, Modern EDU by Gust MEES 
