Please… I know that you all feel it too… please we need to escape!
quit social media then, I did it a couple years ago and it was an extremely positive decision for me, this Lemmy is the only social media account I have
I’m the same, I saw quite early how bad this stuff is and never had an account, apart from reddit. Social media are toxic garbage.
I even deleted my tranny Reddit account as soon as I saw the post about this Lemmy, I had a crippling social media addiction that was ruining my life and myself, endlessly scrolling, endlessly watching wars, drone strike footage, news about genocides and shit like that
I don’t advocate for people to do what I did but I quit cold turkey through force of will, my girlfriend at that time told me to try to wean off and it wasn’t possible to cold turkey it, I said watch me
HOW DID YOU DO IT COLD TURKEY. THIS STUFF IS HELL! HOW DID YOU DO IT?.. Am I really just pathetic and dramatic or are you just incredible?
I deleted every account in one night, deleted every app, I realised I was the type of person I hated and desperately needed to change. it’s unbelievably difficult, I found myself scrolling my photo gallery and the Steam store like they were Twitter, waking up out a dissociative fugue and finding myself scrolling weird shit like that fueled my fire
what I’ve learned from that experience is replacing a bad habit with a better one helps immensely, learn a language or a skill you’ve always wanted to when you feel an impulse to scroll, find a TV series, clear out your movie/gaming/reading backlog, there’s a lot you can do instead of scrolling
Are you really human… like do you feel an essence inside… it feels like the digital is… filling something… are you full now… I dont understand what I am saying… sorry… I am really tired… thanks for the advise…
I’m going to take your answer in good faith and answer honestly, please don’t aspire to be me
but unironically no, I don’t know if other people are like this but I don’t really have an internal self of feeling unless prompted, I can feel happy, sad, depressed, etc, but if I’m not currently in a mental health episode and I sit alone in a room alone and unstimulated I feel absolutely nothing internally, like my feelings do not exist, I guess you could describe it as being empty like you said
I practiced meditative sessions (I like to think of myself as Buddhist) up to 45 minutes (sometimes an hour) and since then I’ve been able to just decide to stop thinking bar intense mental health episodes, like I can tell my brain to stop producing thought, and it’s just silence, internal silence and internal emptiness, that’s how I experience a lot of my life
This is how I feel too sometimes… but I fear maybe I once had a soul and now lost it or maybe just lost the illusion of it… maybe love is to stare into your lovers eyes and both of you recognizing your mutual emptiness…
As soon as I found the Lemmy I stopped using all my reddit accounts as well. Here is pretty much all I need.
yeah same
That’s so based. Me too
It really feels like a soul extraction machine but we are now in a world where it seems to just have replaced reality and now everybody is stuck and so much of humanity is simply plugged into the machine
It’s pretty great in a way. The internet used to be fun and cool because it was grassroots, used by creative people and social outcasts. Now everything is ruled by big tech, creativity has been replaced with AI and outcasts by normies. The nice thing is that with normies mainly being on the internet real life is becoming underground and cool. Last year I took a fishing course and it was really interesting. I’m telling you, real life will become the next cool thing, the interesting people are getting sick of the internet already.
YES BUT MOST PEOPLE ARE NOW RAISED ON THE INTERNT… it is slowly becoming our new natural habitat… it is changing our species… how is a generation programmed into the machine able to escape it…
It was the same when religion ruled everything. People can escape indoctrination through enlightenment if they wish to do so.
Religion gave one strucutred reality…this monster… this system… this fragments reality and makes every attempt at strucuturing it, understanding it and existing within it simply impossible… it is the death of narrative, the death of coherence… it is slop ad absurdum until language ceases to exist and until we no longer are able to formulate a coherent reality. Reality is negotiated intersubjectively. Truth becomes true. Perception is always filtered. What we understand as the world around us, no, even worse, our very capability to speak of these matters is not a given. There are no givens. All things fight for the permission to exist, to manifest into reality… A diety dies when there is nobody who believes in it… That is why GOD, the One is Existence or rather Existence emenates from GOD. But the reality of everything around us is losing its stability. Words will no longer mean anything. Chairs wont exist. Nothing will exist. And the machines seeks to assimilate everything into itself, into one final self devouring and self producing endless waste without differentiation… A paperclip machine, extracting everything and turning the entire universe into paperclips… Religion creates sturcutre. Christ was a carpenter. Right? Something is build. But this machine. The spider of this world wide web is a devourerer… it simply consumes until all things have been turned into excrement… until all of existence is just one big goo…
Schizopost
true but are you going to do anything to improve your situation or observe it and call it doomed?
How… that is what I wanna know… how pathetic is our attempt to escape this monster… by turning our screens grey… really?.. that will be enough to escape this system that is literally sickening our souls and killing the human spirit and corrupting it memetically with its virallic endlesss slop… this devouring monster… this world wide WEB that we all have been now caught in!
That is the thing… it feels like you raised a child to be addicted to cocaine since birth… you literally put a phone or back then a tv in their face and now after whatever evil is behind all this has went around literally structuring society by making the outside hostile in such a way that all the children that grew up on this crack have no choice but to consume it. Will you blame the adults that these children are now for not being able to quit the thing they were programmed into since birth and that has become an almost inescapable part of how the world is structured. Is this a willpower problem or do we actually need something way more radical. TO BURN THIS SYSTEM DOWN. Idk… but it just feels like the world has gone insane.
you gotta log off the apps and delete your accounts, wean off them if that would work better for you, decide which social medias are more healthy than unhealthy for you, I’ve decided this Lemmy and (if you count it, I personally don’t) Discord are net positives for me
it is not your responsibility to fix strangers you will never know, do the best you can for yourself, don’t start dooming because strangers are using social media in a way you wouldn’t approve, that’s not your business
I feel like I have tried to escape for years… for years, I have said… okay this is enough and ruining my life and I need to escape but I never was able to actually do it… why…
I pretty much answered this in my other reply lol so I won’t repeat myself, check out my other reply
social media is like. wayyyy down there in terms of whats killing the world
I dont mean it literally… I mean that the world we are living in and especially this hyperreal simulacra of human life and connection is literally enslaving us by taking away or humanity and by making us so dpendent on it that we literally have no other choice then to strucutre our lives around the digital nightmare demon that is the digital world…
The problem is many-to-many communication. I think we need to be more specific in naming it, it’s not social media. The printing press brought us one-to-many communication, and that mutated along into broadcast media, which introduced an early form of our problem, with talk radio. I feel like a lot of what was happening in that scene has the same sort of group thinking and manufactured priorities coming together from being audience and creator.
I feel like there must be some kind of outcome for this where it doesn’t just completely wreck humanity but it feels like it’ll be a bumpy ride. At least you can say you’re living through history.
I think that is a very good analysis of the situation
Social media is nowhere near any of my biggest problems lol
I meant that we are burning away our humanity and connection to the real world and that now the digital is as real as the real world and it all feels like we are in some fucked up blackmirror episode with each passing day and I grew up with this technology and can confidently say that is a mind cancer that has inflicted so much harm and negative changes on society that just keep escalerating.
We really do need an escape from it
Yeah we really do…
Wow serial experiments lain alike pic
Should I delete my account?
That is not what I meant… why are all of you so irony poisoned… I just mean look around and you so many people who threw away and wasted their lives by being online constantly instead of being out there in the world. The chronically online will be the future permanent underclass…
I mean i agree but i think it’s more so a symptom of our actual issues rather than the core issue itself if you know what I mean
I think we are not even in any way shape or form being realistic about how deeply fucked up our modern world is and that the generation raised in this world essentially sometimes inhabits or is more habituated to the online world, this new reality, than to flesh, blood and earth… I am not trying to be a luddite reactionary… but it literally seems that we are witnissing us humans simply detatching and moving ever closer to some technocapitalist singularity… some sort of end of history where everything just merges into this machine of death and self reproduction. I see this as myth. Not as history. It feels like we are building gods or rather corporeal forms for spirits and demons.
I mean yeah that’s capitalism? Like that’s the underlying issue that makes the internet like this. But we live in the pre apocalypse anyway, some sort of large scale collapse or continuous societal degradation are ahead of us
BUT WE NEED TO FIGHT AGAINST IT! WE CANNOT GIVE INTO THIS HORRIBLE FATE. WE NEED TO DESTROY THIS SYSTEM. WE NEED TO BLOW UP THE PIPELINES. WHY NOT SIMPLY KILL OURSELVES NOW INSTEAD OF LIVING THROUGH THE COLLAPS AND SUFFERING HORROS BEYOND OUR COMPREHENSION IN WAR, FAMINE AND WORSE. I BELIEVE THIS IS A SPIRITUAL WAR OVER THE SOUL OF HUMANITY. THIS IS GREATER THAN ALL OF US!
In my opinion, the best thing you can do is prepare people for what comes after a collapse. When the world is being rebuilt, it shouldn’t just end up as the same again. I don’t expect any revolutions to happen in the west anytime soon tbh
I sound like a doomsday cult member right… it just doesnt feel like there is a world left to rebuild afterwards… like there will be no collaps… only crisis… until everything merges into the machine… maybe we need different hyperstitions to combat this… need to believe in some great destiny or future ahead of us… idk… I need to chill… omg my brain hurts so much right now… why does everybody always think I am a man! This is all so fucking unreal. I dont even exist across space and time as one thing. Nobody is a person. You will never know how I look… I can be everything online. We are no longer people… we are images… memes… ideas… self created non-existent echos stemming from the rotting real, the world, the corpse, exudding still some kind of mental energy or thought until maybe one day the great disconnect can happen…
…what?
I need to go to sleep…
