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It's easy to get caught up in information flows, and assess how the state of the world aligns with your values. It's much harder to propagate your values into t
by totetsu 6y ago
It's easy to get caught up in information flows, and assess how the state of the world aligns with your values. It's much harder to propagate your values into the world. Just worrying sometimes feels like you're doing something, when you're not. It's a shame that most of us are so disempowered that tuning out is probably the best option for our individual wellbeing.
I realised Social media was a memetic parasite right from the start when I could feel the urge to take a photo of something, rather than just enjoy it rising in my consciousness.
- nradov 6y agoPeople felt the urge to take pictures rather than just enjoying things long before social media. Many of us enjoy the photography process itself, and we like to share our art with friends.
- totetsu 6y agoI just made a dark room in my bathroom last week to try black and white photo paper developing. The slow hard treacherous process is giving me a new appreciation for photography of the past. I guess I do remember people talking a disposable camera to a party and then personally giving the prints to their friends weeks later. What I found in the mid 2000s was this new thought of 'what photo to take' and 'what caption to write' , Like I was my own publicist. always in an imaginary conversation with people who weren't actually around, which is more a hallmark of loneliness than of touted 'being connected to the things and people I love' ...