I think there was some ambiguity in the past. Saying that technological progression and human progression are not one and the same was food for thought.
Social media was neat. Sharing photos and your life with others, meeting people of similar interests, it seemed like a great new thing.
And now everything is about engagement it feels on social media. Be sure to have a small detail in what you say incorrect so people will engage and correct you. Be sure not to write the full thought so people click to read more. Be sure to follow what is literally all the rage and help stoke the flames. Be sure to use AI to do the above for you to save time. Be sure to have it all automated in bots. Get that engagement.
It seems very clearly to not be progression in anyway, and yet it feels like the biggest addiction of my life. I read so much by racist sexist shitheads and I don’t want to. I see fights on social media. I see women give a single frame of themselves in revealing clothing. I see people stare weirdly into the camera while I’m supposed to read banal text.
And yet I haven’t been able to look away. I know it’s destroying my very fiber, and yet I’ll just look at one more 20 second video.
The deadline was my son being born, but that didn’t work. It has to be soon though. He can’t see his dad always on his phone getting angry at what people from Sioux Falls are saying.
And so I’ll continue to try and fail, which is not a good look. Those happily addicted to their phones are much better. They’re succeeding at their vision.
Oh well, more and more clarity daily.
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My son and I will finish the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in two days. Please be excited.
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