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Brewery / Re: social media, the problem?
« Last post by justinheronmusic on Today at 06:31:26 PM » I've been off of all major social media outlets (IG, FB, Twitter, Ect.) for a little over 3 years. Since my leaving, I'm in a much healthier state of being. And I have learned a lot from being off it, particularly who my real friends are, and just to what extent people that you used to know or currently "know" use social media as a means of surveillance.
My main concern with social media was that I felt that not only was I willfully participating in my own brainwashing, and falling slave to the political and business agendas of facebook, and the agendas of those who use facebook as a tool for brainwashing, but I could see the opinions of the people in my life influenced by what I knew was social media driven news/politics/opinions ect based on popular news post, and or shared information - I was really picking up on this sort of "hive minding" that was happening in my immediate community, and social media community.
If you ask me, it's not JUST social media that is the problem, it is the smartphone in general. We as humans have been using it as poverty inducing numbing devices. People constantly buy stuff on their phones, they constantly expose themselves to news articles, opinions, and force themselves to make micro decisions on purchases induced by ad space on the internet. One cannot logon without being confronted with the decision, "20% off, wow, what a deal, should I take advantage of that or not?". Flooding our dopamine receptors with endless photos, videos, interactions, and content that we've never seen before. Nothing in the real world will ever be as exciting to our brains.
The more time we spend in an echo chamber of people pointing the finger at each other, the longer we the people will be divided, and easily influenced. If we are divided, we are conquered, and the more people that are born into this planet, the more people there are to control. What better way to control the people then by dividing them, removing their ability to survive and replacing it with a reliance on the implemented system for their basic human needs, and then making them feel that they are missing the ingredients for a happy life; they must consume in order fulfill their needs and consume to be happy, spending those hard earned paychecks. The more we consume the more we impoverish ourselves. In a society where money is power and only those with large sums can make decisions, it leaves the rest of us at their mercy. Now, more than ever, corporations exercise their power to influence politics.
Social media is not the only problem, it's the inability for people to identify to what extent they are being controlled, and willfully enslaving themselves to the system with blinders on their eyes. If we all wake up and refuse to participate, surrender our convenience for a moment, or even just create stronger boundaries of what we will and will not tolerate, we can create a shift towards a better use of this tool that we call the internet.
My main concern with social media was that I felt that not only was I willfully participating in my own brainwashing, and falling slave to the political and business agendas of facebook, and the agendas of those who use facebook as a tool for brainwashing, but I could see the opinions of the people in my life influenced by what I knew was social media driven news/politics/opinions ect based on popular news post, and or shared information - I was really picking up on this sort of "hive minding" that was happening in my immediate community, and social media community.
If you ask me, it's not JUST social media that is the problem, it is the smartphone in general. We as humans have been using it as poverty inducing numbing devices. People constantly buy stuff on their phones, they constantly expose themselves to news articles, opinions, and force themselves to make micro decisions on purchases induced by ad space on the internet. One cannot logon without being confronted with the decision, "20% off, wow, what a deal, should I take advantage of that or not?". Flooding our dopamine receptors with endless photos, videos, interactions, and content that we've never seen before. Nothing in the real world will ever be as exciting to our brains.
The more time we spend in an echo chamber of people pointing the finger at each other, the longer we the people will be divided, and easily influenced. If we are divided, we are conquered, and the more people that are born into this planet, the more people there are to control. What better way to control the people then by dividing them, removing their ability to survive and replacing it with a reliance on the implemented system for their basic human needs, and then making them feel that they are missing the ingredients for a happy life; they must consume in order fulfill their needs and consume to be happy, spending those hard earned paychecks. The more we consume the more we impoverish ourselves. In a society where money is power and only those with large sums can make decisions, it leaves the rest of us at their mercy. Now, more than ever, corporations exercise their power to influence politics.
Social media is not the only problem, it's the inability for people to identify to what extent they are being controlled, and willfully enslaving themselves to the system with blinders on their eyes. If we all wake up and refuse to participate, surrender our convenience for a moment, or even just create stronger boundaries of what we will and will not tolerate, we can create a shift towards a better use of this tool that we call the internet.
