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Hear me out. Try, just once, imagining those people who want to leave but can't like you might imagine an alcoholic who wants to stop drinking but can't. Or a t
by noman-land 2y ago
Hear me out. Try, just once, imagining those people who want to leave but can't like you might imagine an alcoholic who wants to stop drinking but can't. Or a teen who wants to stop binge eating and purging but can't. Addictions come in all shapes and sizes, and this attention/information addiction is new enough to where many don't have a defense mechanism for it. Likely most of us will develop strategies to maintain healthy habits and, indeed, some of us have. Some never will.
It's not ridicule that people with addiction need. It's help.
- talldayo 2y agoAmerica can't help itself. We can't outlaw cigarettes with a direct deterministic study linking it to cancer, we couldn't unhook ourselves from cable news even when the internet threatened to make it obsolete. It's the same people exploiting the same vulnerable idiots from 20 years ago, with a new coat of paint and a few fresh staff members. I can't help these people besides socially pressuring them in a reciprocal manner to how social media pressures them. I don't just scorn their usage of Twitter, I outright do not acknowledge their existence insofar as it pertains to members-only media platforms. If the image of their digital soul being owned by an online corporation does not motivate them to find healthier means of self-expression, they are a slave to regressive machinations I cannot change.