You are trapped in a brainrot industrial complex.
You scroll mindlessly to numb yourself from the problems around you only to expose yourself to every bad thing thats happening at a global scale. You fall deep enough into learned helplessness that even attempting to solve your problems around you is too monumental.
Instead, you continue to scroll. Everything real feels too boring. Like green tea after an 8 ball of cocaine. Your brain continues to atrophy. Life becomes something you begrudgingly do outside of screentime.
The algorithms learn everything about you. Your wants, needs, desires. What you love and what you hate. Its profitability is dependent on you showing up to the scroll. This is its one and only metric and it will achieve that by any means necessary.
When we think dystopia we envision some cataclysmic event. The reality is more mundane and sinister. We slowly lose our agency, our intuition, and our interconnectedness until one day we look up and we've already been plugged into the machine.
how to be more creative:
- consume what others don't
- make what you wish existed
- put down your damn phone
- walk until ideas find you
- make something every day
- stop doing it for the applause
- embrace your inner child
- use constraints as fuel
I often find myself scrolling on here despite my home page being deader than dead.
Now I could delete twitter altogether but thinking, there's no reason this can't be a viable way to document my journey. Time to dig through my journal notes 🍃
@SahilBloom@WisdomMadeEasy Really glad you shared this graphic before! I've made it a habit to go on a daily walk and that waterfall image has crossed my mind a few times, thank you!