To be clear, after years of use, social media has changed my daily thought habits, therefore changed what I think about as well as the emotional content of my day. This is what the paths of our minds are made up of, our daily thought habits, plus our emotional moods, both body chemicals with their related feelings (are you hungry? etc...), and mental narratives based on events* (i.e. are you paying attention to events in the day to day around you, or to things happening all over the world?). It's not a I-kinda-think-therefore-it-is type of deal. And if I am one unit, one person who is part of the collective consciousness and social consciousness*, therefore social media exposure has done this to all who have partaken, to the degree that they were "exposed", according to what content people were exposed to, . ( *For more see collective consciousness , or Social_consciousness. Yes, I 💖Wikipedia ).
For me personally the reason I got into social media, and what I search for when there, was and is still about finding contemporary art and fiction writing.
But, there is no escape from politics today, esp. American politics if you are an American Voter, like me. There's also a great sad heaps of religious crap tangled in the "spaghetti" of our lack of separation of religion and state. It's gotten so bad with The Supreme Court of the United States, Thomas Jefferson and other like minded founding fathers must be rolling in projectile vomit in their graves.
Oh and money, is that the other one we are told not to talk about? The divide is pre-Apocalyptically bad in our current economic state. The working poor who were the middle class in the 70s - 80s are now as I understand it debt slaves to such a degree the wealthy can't even make money directly off of them anymore, instead they are selling all their personal meta-data and worse bio-meta-data to who knows who is buying.
Did I mention how I got into social media to find art and fiction writing and to promote my own art and fiction writing?
And how did that go? I wrote 5/6th of a political parody, something I never, never, in a trillion years ever imagined myself, ever doing.
Sooooooooo...?* (my favorite word since 2019 is so with too many o's, as a question).
I'm attempting to wean myself off of social media in 2023 and the ironic and pathetic part is that I still need the internet and/or a community of people to not be a lone artist with piles of art in a shack that no one will ever see until I die and someone buys our lot (including the shack) and finds this art pile. And to finished, to be, one must be read, before the piles of drafts on the top shelf of my closet meet the same fate. Tho, unlike the pottery, the paper can be burnt and the digits of computer memory can be deleted.
Now what? That is the question! *blerg* (thanks, very much for that perfect word Tina Fey).
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P.s. now is currently August 22nd, I posted this on July 13th, 2023. And I've been avoiding the social media except to post to unfired clay on my Unfired Clay tumblr. And a few check-ins at IG. For me this = pretty sparce to absent from social media activity.
Sept 6th, just need a bit more time, and looking at time-lines, and motivation, reasons, explanations, and finally that "click",... maybe? Tho, the one that says "this is it!" not waiting forever for that one.
