This article was enlightening, but I think the problem is social media itself, and Twitter may be one of the worst. The system only really promotes 'influencers' and 'creators', and it simultaneously strips real world buffers - you know like real human interaction - out of your life by using algorithms that exploit psychology to capture …
This article was enlightening, but I think the problem is social media itself, and Twitter may be one of the worst. The system only really promotes 'influencers' and 'creators', and it simultaneously strips real world buffers - you know like real human interaction - out of your life by using algorithms that exploit psychology to capture our attention over and over and over.
"Back when I was a kid..." Yea I know, cringe, but so what? Back when I was a kid, I had conversations with diamonds in the rough, brilliant, humble people who Larry King and Dan Rather never heard of. These people lived a lifetime and had the stable self confidence to show for it. These weren't bloviating attention seekers like Trump and Biden, or Caitlyn Jenner and Kanye West, people whose Tweets (or whatever) are discussed for months. I'm talking about a guy who served as an officer in World War II. One night Fred caught a whole series of train cars headed for the tropical Pacific Theater with snow parkas, and another set of cars headed for Europe with malaria pills. There were other things in the cars, but you get the point. He worked through the night sorting it all out in the rain and mud, because that's what he had to do. He didn't get to fight alongside them, but in his words, he was ready to lay down on the tracks before he let those cars go the wrong way.
How did he reach me? Because he was just a normal 80+ year old guy who went to the Y every day, and brought his lunch so he could sit in the lobby and chat with people. And on one of those days he gave a young lifeguard on lunch break half his sandwich and some pepper slices and asked why the kid ate such garbage all the time.
You don't get Fred on Twitter, or TikTok, or Youtube. These kids are all wasting their bandwidth. I like Mr. Beast, I think he's good for the kids, but at some point these massive creators are going to have to step up and find a way to get people off their phones once in a while. We have to talk to the people around us, because that's real.
Real is the only thing that will save us from the stupidity that Twitter brings us, along with all the exploits it offers tyrants and sociopaths.
This article was enlightening, but I think the problem is social media itself, and Twitter may be one of the worst. The system only really promotes 'influencers' and 'creators', and it simultaneously strips real world buffers - you know like real human interaction - out of your life by using algorithms that exploit psychology to capture our attention over and over and over.
"Back when I was a kid..." Yea I know, cringe, but so what? Back when I was a kid, I had conversations with diamonds in the rough, brilliant, humble people who Larry King and Dan Rather never heard of. These people lived a lifetime and had the stable self confidence to show for it. These weren't bloviating attention seekers like Trump and Biden, or Caitlyn Jenner and Kanye West, people whose Tweets (or whatever) are discussed for months. I'm talking about a guy who served as an officer in World War II. One night Fred caught a whole series of train cars headed for the tropical Pacific Theater with snow parkas, and another set of cars headed for Europe with malaria pills. There were other things in the cars, but you get the point. He worked through the night sorting it all out in the rain and mud, because that's what he had to do. He didn't get to fight alongside them, but in his words, he was ready to lay down on the tracks before he let those cars go the wrong way.
How did he reach me? Because he was just a normal 80+ year old guy who went to the Y every day, and brought his lunch so he could sit in the lobby and chat with people. And on one of those days he gave a young lifeguard on lunch break half his sandwich and some pepper slices and asked why the kid ate such garbage all the time.
You don't get Fred on Twitter, or TikTok, or Youtube. These kids are all wasting their bandwidth. I like Mr. Beast, I think he's good for the kids, but at some point these massive creators are going to have to step up and find a way to get people off their phones once in a while. We have to talk to the people around us, because that's real.
Real is the only thing that will save us from the stupidity that Twitter brings us, along with all the exploits it offers tyrants and sociopaths.