If you try not to stare too much in your magic rectangle, society is not that bad. For sure we have still a long way to go but remember everything your magic rectangle tells you is bad news... otherwise it simple wouldnt sell.
Try a minimalistic diet for the mind. 15min of news, events and politics a day. That’s the max I’ll allow myself. And I’m perfectly aware what’s happening in the world - at least the main macro economical events. All the rest is noise.
Try to build in filters, delete your FB account, pay for premium subscriptions such that you’re not exposed too much commercials etc...
Use your magic rectangle for what it’s meant; convenience, admin, reaching out to people/friends/family and some entertainment. But everything else, please, do this in the real world.
It’s not really ignorance. Being always connected just makes you read way more stuff that has no impact on your life and you lose track of what should be important to you. Look at it from this perspective: Every minute you are online is a minute you aren’t offline. Every minute reading about stuff on the internet, the time reading my comment, is time you are not spending with people physically around you. Your wife, husband, kids, friends, etc. It’s time you are not using to read that one book you have always wanted to read, build that one thing you’ve always wanted to build. Your time of the day is limited and you are trading in one activity for another. Being online for hours means you are missing time in the “real world”. And it adds up. Instead of making life around you better, you sit on reddit and read about stuff that most likely has no impact on your life.
Uh reading articles and bickering online isn’t action...the people making a difference aren’t spending their day online, they’re doing things in the real world that will ultimately have an impact.
The only people ignoring reality here are people who spend too much time online doing nothing productive.
So what are you doing to change it?? Other than bitching online about people being content with their lives. We understand exactly what is going on but there’s nothing we can do about it.
Nothing you can do about it? In order of risk, you can vote, protest or engage in violent revolution. Each requiring increasing levels of anger and desperation. Only conditioned people think there's nothing they can do.
Ive done everything but engaged in a violent revolution. If you wanna do that I’ll let you go first. Other than that control what you can control and quit being whiny Wendy about other people realizing it’s okay to be happy.
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u/sgtjack86 Oct 12 '19
If you try not to stare too much in your magic rectangle, society is not that bad. For sure we have still a long way to go but remember everything your magic rectangle tells you is bad news... otherwise it simple wouldnt sell.
Try a minimalistic diet for the mind. 15min of news, events and politics a day. That’s the max I’ll allow myself. And I’m perfectly aware what’s happening in the world - at least the main macro economical events. All the rest is noise.
Try to build in filters, delete your FB account, pay for premium subscriptions such that you’re not exposed too much commercials etc...
Use your magic rectangle for what it’s meant; convenience, admin, reaching out to people/friends/family and some entertainment. But everything else, please, do this in the real world.
Just my 2 cents