Also, they aren't intelligent, or informed or able to speak coherently. They are actually dumb. And their dumbness is making everyone else dumb by proxy. When you try to help them understand reality, you end up getting dragged down into the dumb. LIke a lifeguard trying to pull a flailing person who can't swim...to shore. You might just drown with them
This is a characteristic of internet politics and social media in general. I'm about to take a prolonged media-fast this New years to cleanse my soul of all this trifflin' bullshit. Feel free to do the same. Sad part is, I'll have to taper down from 12+ hours online to 2, to none as it really is addictive, for me. Being 'connected' to other people is addictive. Feeling appreciated or laughing at someone's jokes releases serotonin and (insert brain science quotes which doesn't really get to the bottom of anything but makes people feel smart).
If I'm offline for 8 hours, the glow of the screen and click of the buttons def gets me high for the first 5-10 minutes online. Stupid. But, true.
I feel 100% less able to focus than I was able to do 15 years ago when I didn't even have a TV and just read books, meditated and took acid all day long. XD
Gonna get back to that. Minus the acid, of course.
P.S. It also helps to remember that most people aren't online. That the internet never was an accurate description of the world. :D
listening to people on the internet or social media is very similar to listening to drunks. Actually the discourses of the two are very similar to one another. either way, It’s fun at first, but eventually it get tiresome.
Also, they aren't intelligent, or informed or able to speak coherently. They are actually dumb. And their dumbness is making everyone else dumb by proxy. When you try to help them understand reality, you end up getting dragged down into the dumb. LIke a lifeguard trying to pull a flailing person who can't swim...to shore. You might just drown with them
#WalkAway___fromTheDumb
This is a characteristic of internet politics and social media in general. I'm about to take a prolonged media-fast this New years to cleanse my soul of all this trifflin' bullshit. Feel free to do the same. Sad part is, I'll have to taper down from 12+ hours online to 2, to none as it really is addictive, for me. Being 'connected' to other people is addictive. Feeling appreciated or laughing at someone's jokes releases serotonin and (insert brain science quotes which doesn't really get to the bottom of anything but makes people feel smart).
If I'm offline for 8 hours, the glow of the screen and click of the buttons def gets me high for the first 5-10 minutes online. Stupid. But, true.
I feel 100% less able to focus than I was able to do 15 years ago when I didn't even have a TV and just read books, meditated and took acid all day long. XD
Gonna get back to that. Minus the acid, of course.
P.S. It also helps to remember that most people aren't online. That the internet never was an accurate description of the world. :D
listening to people on the internet or social media is very similar to listening to drunks. Actually the discourses of the two are very similar to one another. either way, It’s fun at first, but eventually it get tiresome.