End Game

Disconnection is how we’re here and it’s how we will stay here. Division is the end game.

Remember when we all took those fun online quizzes and shared them with it friends who shared them with their friends? And then we learned that it was just a form of data mining, so we could be sorted into houses by bots who could target us with the information that would keep us siloed with our “online tribe”, disconnected from real humans in our actual communities who might not share our views? People who might look at things differently, forcing us to think more critically about our deeply held beliefs?

I just watched a nation fall to intense disinformation campaigns waged by a dude looking to buy a country and some external players looking to destabilize it for their own goals. I’m rapidly losing my faith in social media over all.

Get on Threads! Join Bluesky! Find your tribe! Connect!

(Isolate. Disconnect from people. Get into a new rabbit hole. Don’t challenge your thoughts, ideas and beliefs. Read only what we put in front of you.)

Does the human brain require tribalism? Or are energetic, committed dangerous folk exploiting the loopholes created by the slow adaptation of our brains to this onslaught of information? 

Remember - over long time, we are a radar blip. Hell we might not even register on the screen we’ve been here so little time. Our bodies and our brains have not learned to manage all this new stuff, like sugar and mayonnaise and the internet. But our brain, that little neurotransmitter addict living in our skull, is having a blast out here…so many things to indulge in, so many things to worry about, so much so much so much.

I ain’t saying. I’m just saying. Push back on your own brain. Read books with pages. Talk to people in the store. Make eye contact. Tell dumb jokes. CONNECT. Not here. Not on the platform du jour. IRL, people, IRL. 

I know it’s hard, I struggle with it myself. I’ve been on more Facebook diets than I can count, and I always get pulled back in. But before we rear an entire generation of people who do not remember the time before, I urge us all to shut it all off. 

The desire for and drive to isolate is very strong, especially now.

Resist. Connect with live people. Please.