Perfect. And yet... here we all are. I logged out of all social media ages ago - ironically I worked for a social media agency for a while, and it made me ill on a daily basis. I even had an anti social media social media account. And a couple of satirical ones. But I felt like everything I did, whether is was satirical or posting news about the horrors of social, or even trying to get family and friends to log off, just added to the mess. I can't see how to win. The only people who could get rid of platforms like TikTok are the very people who profit from them. Hence why Trump has gone to great lengths to backtrack on his TikTok ban. And constantly buddies up to Elon and Mark.
Quite the dilemma. Substituting consumerism for citizenship, we are no longer creators, and we bleed memecoins to those who are. They become addicted to our attention at the same time we are addicted to randomness rather than order and participation in reality. Passivity dumbs us all down. We used to rely on each other to provide a sense of meaning, by interacting. Now it seems there's no there there. And no real meaning until we drop the addictions to randomness.
An essential treatise for our contemporary condition, except for "Unlike drug addiction, which destroys individual lives while leaving social structures intact...". Having lost my brother to fentanyl, his leaving did not leave our family's social structure intact. That single link in our family chain may have made a difference in bridging political preferences and understandings. At least, I'd like to think so.
Agree. Even Google recently took it upon itself, (the nerve!) to tell me when to take a break, call it an evening, and rest. I swear I did not activate any notifications of the kind.
Perfect. And yet... here we all are. I logged out of all social media ages ago - ironically I worked for a social media agency for a while, and it made me ill on a daily basis. I even had an anti social media social media account. And a couple of satirical ones. But I felt like everything I did, whether is was satirical or posting news about the horrors of social, or even trying to get family and friends to log off, just added to the mess. I can't see how to win. The only people who could get rid of platforms like TikTok are the very people who profit from them. Hence why Trump has gone to great lengths to backtrack on his TikTok ban. And constantly buddies up to Elon and Mark.
The solution has to involve following the money. How does the addiction produce cash flow for the operators of these systems? That’s the key.
Quite the dilemma. Substituting consumerism for citizenship, we are no longer creators, and we bleed memecoins to those who are. They become addicted to our attention at the same time we are addicted to randomness rather than order and participation in reality. Passivity dumbs us all down. We used to rely on each other to provide a sense of meaning, by interacting. Now it seems there's no there there. And no real meaning until we drop the addictions to randomness.
An essential treatise for our contemporary condition, except for "Unlike drug addiction, which destroys individual lives while leaving social structures intact...". Having lost my brother to fentanyl, his leaving did not leave our family's social structure intact. That single link in our family chain may have made a difference in bridging political preferences and understandings. At least, I'd like to think so.
Agree. Even Google recently took it upon itself, (the nerve!) to tell me when to take a break, call it an evening, and rest. I swear I did not activate any notifications of the kind.