This is quite a lengthy read yet easy in an outline format/presentation
But alone, it brings to mind all the smartphone zombies seen everywhere, on trains, buses, in cafes,… lost in continuous loops of TikTok vids and other social media, unaware of what is taking place beyond a 15 centimetre distance from themselves…
Also, it brings to mind the efforts of BOTH parties in the United States to control TikTok…
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Edit: Just to add, it drew my attention to Cosplay! Cosplayers becoming characters in fictitious worlds. Is this healthy imaginative escapism or an abandonment of society’s reality? Healthy or unhealthy? Pondering continues…
Very good analysis. You’re seeing everything. All the distractions and the ones who are holding the remote, trying to push our buttons. On your edit, I think it’s a little of both. There were cosplayers at the +7 million people protest and they stood at the front of their reality. They were able to escape it while standing up for it as someone else. I hope in their own skin they find as much strength but I am happy they have an out, we all need one at times. Thanks for sharing ✊
“Lives of quiet desperation" is a famous quote from Henry David Thoreau's Walden that describes people who are unhappy and unfulfilled but conceal their discontent. This state of being comes from living according to societal expectations rather than one's own aspirations, leading to a feeling of being trapped in routine, which causes internal dissatisfaction and a lack of genuine happiness. The quote suggests that many people settle for an ordinary, unexamined life filled with materialism and conformity, ultimately leaving them in a state of silent, "quiet" desperation.
Thus, they escape into the modern state you describe, algorithmic sedation
I know you picked "sedation" for a specific reason, and I see it. However, when you say that sedation makes the mind porous, I would like to offer you that between the four different aspects described in the paper that the "softening" you mention is more like bruising. The sedation makes us stay still while we are pummelled, but unlike drunkenness which makes us limber and therefore capable of avoiding severe injury the narrowing of attention upon the flood zone keeps us taut through outrage. Consequently, the damage goes deep, and the "softening" becomes debilitating.
This is the first intro to your writing. I'm 70 y.o. and of course I didn't understand what the hell you were talking about in the introduction. But thankfully I pressed on. You are brilliant. I saw myself in each of these steps. I had wondered I've lost interest in reading every night and just haven't been able to get back into it. I've been talking about needing to find something creative again but being unable to do so. I've also felt grief for the loss of activities, interests and connections that used to flourish in my life. Thank you for the awakening. I found the lexicon and will be starting from the first chapter. Sharing this with friends like me who got sucked into the Facebook prison.
Hello. Who are you, please? What is your educational or spiritual background? Also, how can I know that you aren’t trying to train my mind like Google algorithms? Thanks.
So I was thinking that by meeting you, I could take my mistakes from this path, stop working with the child's mother, and travel if necessary for the child.So I was thinking that by getting you, I would take my faults out of this path, stop working with the child's mother and travel if necessary for the child. If you see the child's location through satellite,
This is quite a lengthy read yet easy in an outline format/presentation
But alone, it brings to mind all the smartphone zombies seen everywhere, on trains, buses, in cafes,… lost in continuous loops of TikTok vids and other social media, unaware of what is taking place beyond a 15 centimetre distance from themselves…
Also, it brings to mind the efforts of BOTH parties in the United States to control TikTok…
✊🏼
Edit: Just to add, it drew my attention to Cosplay! Cosplayers becoming characters in fictitious worlds. Is this healthy imaginative escapism or an abandonment of society’s reality? Healthy or unhealthy? Pondering continues…
Very good analysis. You’re seeing everything. All the distractions and the ones who are holding the remote, trying to push our buttons. On your edit, I think it’s a little of both. There were cosplayers at the +7 million people protest and they stood at the front of their reality. They were able to escape it while standing up for it as someone else. I hope in their own skin they find as much strength but I am happy they have an out, we all need one at times. Thanks for sharing ✊
For me, it brought to mind this:
“Lives of quiet desperation" is a famous quote from Henry David Thoreau's Walden that describes people who are unhappy and unfulfilled but conceal their discontent. This state of being comes from living according to societal expectations rather than one's own aspirations, leading to a feeling of being trapped in routine, which causes internal dissatisfaction and a lack of genuine happiness. The quote suggests that many people settle for an ordinary, unexamined life filled with materialism and conformity, ultimately leaving them in a state of silent, "quiet" desperation.
Thus, they escape into the modern state you describe, algorithmic sedation
Funny I was just alluding to this in a brief comment on someone's discord post alluding to how people do not think.
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I know you picked "sedation" for a specific reason, and I see it. However, when you say that sedation makes the mind porous, I would like to offer you that between the four different aspects described in the paper that the "softening" you mention is more like bruising. The sedation makes us stay still while we are pummelled, but unlike drunkenness which makes us limber and therefore capable of avoiding severe injury the narrowing of attention upon the flood zone keeps us taut through outrage. Consequently, the damage goes deep, and the "softening" becomes debilitating.
they have to do something about this one because it’s a big problem in the state and they have no power either so they are going on strike 🪧
nice work man keep up the good job man keep going keep it coming hope to see more pics soon 🔜 cheers 🍻 man
This is the first intro to your writing. I'm 70 y.o. and of course I didn't understand what the hell you were talking about in the introduction. But thankfully I pressed on. You are brilliant. I saw myself in each of these steps. I had wondered I've lost interest in reading every night and just haven't been able to get back into it. I've been talking about needing to find something creative again but being unable to do so. I've also felt grief for the loss of activities, interests and connections that used to flourish in my life. Thank you for the awakening. I found the lexicon and will be starting from the first chapter. Sharing this with friends like me who got sucked into the Facebook prison.
Brainwashing!!..
Well Formed! Meticuous framing! 👌🤜🤛🤌🤘
Check out my Substack, The Apprentice was Trump’s scheme that brainwashed the world with operant conditioning…
Wow! WTF is this? What type of drugs are you doing? Reads like a nightmare to me. One huge bad trip I’m not interested in being on! lol 😂
Hello. Who are you, please? What is your educational or spiritual background? Also, how can I know that you aren’t trying to train my mind like Google algorithms? Thanks.
I am wrong about the child, but please don't accept me.
So I was thinking that by meeting you, I could take my mistakes from this path, stop working with the child's mother, and travel if necessary for the child.So I was thinking that by getting you, I would take my faults out of this path, stop working with the child's mother and travel if necessary for the child. If you see the child's location through satellite,