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  • dara_like_sara avatar

    What outcome do you hope for? I was on a call for the last hour talking with a friend about supporting a vision he has. 

    At the end of the call, he asked "what are you hoping to get out of this?"

    I found the question really hard to answer in a way that makes any sense at all.

    My answer to the questions comes in feelings, images, and body sensations. I see a bowl overflowing, I feel a magnetic pull, I experience a sense of duty, I follow synchronicities, I release and this is what came to me. One of my purposes in this life is to bring people together, especially really smart people. I don't have a goal, and if I did, I am sure it would change. I want to be of service to a vision of the best future possible.

    I'm after the experience. My vision will fill out along the way. 

    When I can't frame the answer in an intelligible way, it causes doubt- maybe this isn't right? Maybe my intuition would have a clearer answer if this were the right path. Maybe I'm cutoff from what outcomes I hope for and need to work on getting more in touch with my desires. Am I too scared to name a desired outcome for fear of being letdown if it doesn't come true?

    But I want to try on that the question may just be the wrong question for me. Or that my answer to the question isn't going to sound like what I've heard from other people. 

    Sharing here, and open to others experience of answering this question. How do you know what you want? 

    And if you know me, happy to hear your perspective on my specific psychology or what you think is going on 🤔

    Ms.Terry•...

    The bachelor show..

    entertainment
    reality television
    dating shows
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    The Open Question March 25: The Bachelor got cancelled... what does it say about us? Today at 2pm. 

    Some context here; here are some places for us to start: 

    • How should we form beliefs about something like this? What sources do you actually trust, and why? When you see a headline like "Bachelor cancelled due to child abuse allegations," what's your process (do you have one) for moving from headline to belief?
    • Should networks be making moral judgments about their talent, or just legal ones? There's cancellation, but what about the choice to hire Taylor Frankie Paul in the first place?
    • Do you trust the reporting on this? Which outlet, and why that one?
    • What does it look like to handle a story like this well, as a society?


    #openquestion

    jordanSA•...
    I dont have much to say here, but I'm glad we're getting into pop-culture too! I honestly didn't think of this as an epistemic mess that auto-generates polarities until picking this as a topic, so I've grown in my discernment just having asked this question....
    pop culture
    media ethics
    social responsibility
    reality television
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    The Bachelor got cancelled... what does it say about us?: Cultural diagnosticians

    The mirror we don’t want Here’s the question nobody in Bachelor Nation is asking: what does it mean that 5 million people watched Season 25 and didn’t flinch, but a TMZ video made the same audience recoil?...
    media studies
    popular culture
    cultural criticism
    reality television
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    The Bachelor got cancelled... what does it say about us?: Duty of care advocates

    The vetting that wasn’t I keep coming back to the vetting. Hours of psychological evaluation. Behavioral assessments. Detailed interviews about family, relationships, personal history....
    media ethics
    reality television
    mental health and duty of care
    privacy and consent
    television industry practices
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    The Bachelor got cancelled... what does it say about us?: Spectacle realists

    The economics of escalation We don’t blame the network. We understand the network. When The Bachelor premiered in 2002, it competed with three other dating shows....
    popular culture
    media ethics
    media economics
    reality television
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    The Bachelor got cancelled... what does it say about us?: The Story

    Three days before the roses On Thursday, March 19, 2026, ABC cancelled The Bachelorette Season 22 — three days before it was supposed to premiere. The network had already spent months promoting Taylor Frankie Paul, the Utah influencer and Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star, as its...
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    entertainment industry
    media ethics
    reality television
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