I hope this blog post finds you and brings you some joy and positivity.
For those of you that took me up on my social and mainstream media (SMSM) fasting challenge, how is it going? Leave a Comment below this post and let us know. I'm not going to lie, SMSM is insidious in its creepiness. By that I mean that despite my diligent adherence to the challenge (or perhaps because of it?), I am really noticing all the ubiquitous ways in which the SMSM Algo (collectively) finds avenues to creep into my daily life. It's literally creepy. Are you finding this also? It's something you don't really notice when you are deep into the SMSM addiction. It's only when you try to detoxify from the negativity and grievance of SMSM that you become aware of its ubiquity.
The Algo and it's many-tentacled search engine optimizers are, I'm sure, actively disenfranchising my blog and its posts about disenfranchising SMSM. SMSM (collectively) thrives on people's blind addiction to it, and anything that exposes the way it "brain hacks" is anathema to its mandate. In all honesty, the main thing this blog has going for it is that the Algo probably dismisses this blog as trivially unimportant and benign. In many ways, that's a good thing. It allows this blog to fly under the proverbial radar, so to speak. I'm not looking for a mass audience for my proposed rebellion and boycott against SMSM. Rather, I am looking for a relevant and interested target audience, which is likely a very small audience - probably just a handful of people. I honestly have no way of knowing how many people this blog has found, much less saved from the destructive clutches of SMSM. Maybe more than I think. But also maybe none.
I am sure many people have dismissed my warnings about the destructiveness of SMSM to mind, body, and soul (mental, physical and spiritual well-being) as hyperbolic. I pity those people. But I cannot devote too much mental energy too them, as there is no return on investment (ROI) of my emotional labor there. It's a "lead a horse to water" kind of fool's errand, if you'll forgive the mixing of metaphors. The naysayers are - proverbially and literally - "lost souls." My focus is on those who are willing to entertain my hypotheses and put them to the test - by actively abstaining from SMSM for at least three weeks and seeing for themselves what a positive benefit SMSM disenfranchisement has on their well-being in all domains of life.
It's the New Year, and time is running short for folks to get on board with the social and mainstream media (SMSM) fasting challenge. While I am hoping for a New Year Miracle (and both Cosmic and Karmic Forces are hard at work on this), the Diabolical Forces in the Universe (DFUs) are also literally Hell bent on complete and total domination and destruction of the Collective Soul of Humanity. Some of this terminology I am using may sound religious, but that is largely for theatrical effect. My position on this matter is most definitely secular and informed by evidence-based Science. The DFUs hate Science, and that's one of the reasons that you see so much anti-Science and anti-intellectual rhetoric and messaging in the SMSM domains. Facts and critical thinking abilities are heavily discouraged by the SMSM Algo (collectively). It's by design that spending one's time connected to SMSM corrodes the ability to reason and think critically. Go to any Comments section of a SMSM site and you'll see that its filled with reactionary EMOTIONAL content, not reasoned RATIONAL content. That's why most conversations on SMSM quickly descend into anger and vitriol and character attacks, while never really addressing the facts of the case.
Anyway, I have to go get ready for work. I am seeing a handful of marriage and family therapy clients today. And before I go do that, I need to feed the dogs and let them out. My healthy substitute activity instead of SMSM today is reading. I'm almost done with The Handmaid's Tale novel - which has become almost non-fiction in these troubled times we are in.
I hope you find happiness and positivity today.
Fin!
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