Never in the history of humanity has information been so vast, dense, and easily accessible. It’s like the internet—and later smartphones—made us all knowledgeable on so many topics. But how knowledgeable are we, actually?
Much of the information that travels through the online environment goes through well-established social media networks such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. And except for Twitter, which seems to be a bit more friendly toward freedom of speech since Elon bought it, most of the others are highly censored.
I have a direct experience with TikTok that I detailed in a post a couple of days ago, where the platform literally took down one of my videos because of so-called community notes. The video was about a so-called secret hand sign that was popular among secret societies such as the Masons.
It wasn’t even the kind of deep information that would “wake up the masses,” and yet they still censored me. On other topics though—all sorts of bullshit—anyone can have an opinion. And the more diverse and contradictory the better.
It almost feels like the whole social media “social participation” thing is designed to be contradictory and divisive. A friend of mine who’s been using TikTok for a while posted a short clip a few weeks ago with a stray dog that entered his car and refused to leave—and the video went viral. But you should’ve seen the comments…
No one knew exactly what happened there, but everyone had an opinion. Some said he intentionally put the dog there just for views. Others claimed he used the situation to create a moment, and that he didn’t care about animals at all.
Others were screaming that if he let the dog go after all that, without adopting him or taking care of him, he was a heartless motherfucker. And so on and so forth. We are so full of opinions in so many ways, but rarely do we reach consensus on what actually matters.
In this country, we had our presidential elections canceled because the “wrong” candidate was about to win—and a lot of noise was made around that. The establishment must be real proud of our current state of being: uneducated in what really matters, indifferent, obedient, but highly acidic on irrelevant shit.
If we’re fighting each other, we can’t fight the real enemy. And at least to me, it’s crystal clear the enemy has been in key governmental and non-governmental positions for years. We don’t really have external enemies—our enemies are our own people.
Still, we keep on fighting over the ultimate car, phone, lifestyle, sport, and so on and so forth. We fight over everything that holds little to no importance, while somehow overlooking the most urgent topics and needs. I guess smartphones made us a bit dumber in the process.
I can even see that sometimes with myself... That’s about it from my side for now. Have a great day, and I’ll catch you all in the next one.
Thanks for your attention,
Adrian