> It’s time to move beyond the era of Big Social using platform lock-in and attention traps to monopolize our minds. We shouldn’t need to fret so much about a dictator holding dominion over a vast digital media empire. The power should reside with the people. The power should reside with you.
My natural response to this is to say something like, "I've chosen not to tie my success and happiness to playing a game on social media."
People will respond with some nonsense like, "lucky you, others dont have that choice" But of course they do. The mass delusion that social media "matters" that elections "matter" that political leaders "matter" that what's important is all the power other people have over you instead of just living your life locally and feeling that real impact in the real world.
Kanye Wests opinion on jews doesnt matter. Imagining every idiot with twitter needs to be "fought" because they said something out loud.
Like people say stupid shit all the time but for some reason "amplification" is the problem. It's all very chicken little to me.
I'm not too cool, I'm not above it all, I haven't seen it all before. I don't have the right idea and you the wrong idea. I really think it doesn't matter. And I cant understand why people think it does. It really seems like delusion.
I know I'm victim to imagining other things matter. I'm a singulatarian. I have weird beliefs than I can't get people to share in. But I dont understand the idea of "fighting Elon" it seems like a bug in thinking.
Twitter is a tool. But people will say, "you are trivializing the public square" like what? There isn't any sense of an equilibrium outcome they want. It's just addiction to conflict and unhappiness.
I feel like the response to this I always read is just additional moral outrage. "Good for you, you see the world on fire and shrug." Sigh, more framing.
My natural response to this is to say something like, "I've chosen not to tie my success and happiness to playing a game on social media."
People will respond with some nonsense like, "lucky you, others dont have that choice" But of course they do. The mass delusion that social media "matters" that elections "matter" that political leaders "matter" that what's important is all the power other people have over you instead of just living your life locally and feeling that real impact in the real world.
Kanye Wests opinion on jews doesnt matter. Imagining every idiot with twitter needs to be "fought" because they said something out loud.
Like people say stupid shit all the time but for some reason "amplification" is the problem. It's all very chicken little to me.
I'm not too cool, I'm not above it all, I haven't seen it all before. I don't have the right idea and you the wrong idea. I really think it doesn't matter. And I cant understand why people think it does. It really seems like delusion.
I know I'm victim to imagining other things matter. I'm a singulatarian. I have weird beliefs than I can't get people to share in. But I dont understand the idea of "fighting Elon" it seems like a bug in thinking.
Twitter is a tool. But people will say, "you are trivializing the public square" like what? There isn't any sense of an equilibrium outcome they want. It's just addiction to conflict and unhappiness.
I feel like the response to this I always read is just additional moral outrage. "Good for you, you see the world on fire and shrug." Sigh, more framing.