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ARCHIVE 03.31.2022
Does anyone use their brain anymore. Or is everyone just repeating “knowledge” they lazily gathered from viral social media over and over and over and over again until it’s rendered meaningless cos no one is adding their own thoughts or experiences to what they stumble upon. No one is seeking experiences or knowledge outside of social media — and if it’s not on social media, it’s for social media. No one is actually thinking or doing independently, for themselves, anymore. It is truly frustrating and unbearable.
At this point I feel like I’m just paying my therapist to have someone intelligent, critical, openminded, and challenging to talk to.
I truly never get bored. But I’m bored with the lack of unboring conversation these days.
I’m not being elitist, I’m just stating empirical facts. And I’m not anti-social media, I’m anti-mindlessness. Minds are withering. What will you do to avoid your own brain’s atrophy?
ARCHIVE 05.30.2022
A lot of people don’t use their minds anymore.. and if they do, they don’t speak it aloud in fear of being blackballed. Can’t even have open discourse anymore cos the moment you do so much as glance at an opinion or view that is not of the main groupthink, you are instantly labeled a right wing conservative Trump supporter. So everyone just has the same polarizing bigoted views, looping the same unoriginal pablum, over and over and over again, without even thinking.
Canceling people and censoring thoughts and using one-word statements (eg: rAciSt, cApitaLiSm, wHitEnEsS) as a weak response to shut down anyone trying to have proper discourse STUNTS GROWTH. Throwing around these potent words so ubiquitously and with such negligence, renders them futile, hollow, without meaning. Conversation has become carceral and inept.
Learn to CONVERSE. Learn to LISTEN. Learn to THINK FOR YOURSELF. Learn to SELF-REFLECT. Learn to LEARN. Learn to study what your view is and also what the opposing view is and everything in between. You can’t fully know what you’re fighting for if you don’t know what you’re fighting against.
The more you repost without thinking beyond the posts, the more you repeat the same statements without thinking beyond the statements.. the more you desensitize yourself and disintegrate what were once powerful ideas. This is a pandemic of indolence, a decline of the mind.
ARCHIVE 06.02.2022
I am begging people to use their brains. Be inquisitive. Ask questions. Ask the hard questions. Question yourself. Question others. Consider other positions. Don’t be scared to change your views. It’s ok to have a different opinion than the one you held last year or the year before. We grow. We learn. We change. We constantly create new perspectives as we gather new information — it’s normal.
I am begging people to not just take things at face value. Dig deeper. Think deeper. Value thinking critically. Ask questions that challenge mainstream views. Learn how to neutrally explore the views that rub you the wrong way. Especially in America where everything is sensationalized and polarized. I love America, but I disagree with many of its ways.
My biggest fear and frustration every day is that we’ll get censored and we’ll self-censor and succumb to numbness and non-thinking so much that we become a completely homogeneous species with no real opinions of our own, solely those which are force fed to us in a disguise of free will through the mind control to which many are oblivious.
I sound like a cOnSpiRaCy tHeOriSt, but if you simply take a look at all the modern accoutrements — the media, the social media, the apps, the conveniences, the luxuries — it’s easy to see what’s happening. We’re happily taking the pill to make us numb, dumb, and divided. In fact, we’re sucking off the time-release coating, crushing it up, and snorting it.
I’m not saying delete all your apps + social media and rid of all your luxuries + conveniences. I’m simply saying it would benefit all of us to interact with these things more consciously, with awareness and wariness of the detriment.
I’m deathly afraid of being addicted to anything again. I never again want to be weak, fucked up, hopeless, desperate, out of control, with no agency of my own. So whenever I feel like I’m becoming addicted to something, I’ll consciously take a step back and abstain for a while to assess what’s going on. Not sure if that’s just me, but it should be common practice for anyone, with everything — addict or not.
Are you guilty of mindless scrolling, empty reposting, and shallow thinking?