Social media is a hall of false mirrors revealing several inconsistencies: weaponizes misinformation as "truth", encourages tribalism as "friendship," encourages a facade of ecstasy to conceal the depression, encourages individual expression while giving tacit approval for conformity, and encourages users to surrender control to a few billionaires while they are deluded into believing they are free.
The State Is Stronger Than Blood
We are more protected from government or state surrogate families than we are from blood families.
Bloodless
As the state replaces the blood family, we will become soulless consumers dependent on handouts and depressed from the weight of our own irrelevance.
Like it or not, technology and the power of the state will make the blood family irrelevant, and there is nothing we can do to stop it, so we should learn to adapt to our new surrogate government-appointed parents.
The Next Depression 2.0
The government needs to abate student debt or else we will collapse into a depression and severely destroy the contract with Americans.
The government is creating a non-sustainable cycle by offering easy money with non-forgivable loans.
Practical Career Without Passion Equals Death to the Soul
While I understand that we need to be practical in our career planning, to embark upon a career path due to convention or money incentives will result in spiritual depression.
Follow Your Passion Is a Lie of the Privileged
Only the privileged have the luxury of following their passion. The rest of us, about 98% according to Jordan Peterson, must find a job that pays the bills.
Passion Is a Canard
This notion of following your passion is a fool's errand. I've had students who followed their passion only to find that their "passion" was a dud, a dead end, and a time waste. I've also had students fall into a career that had nothing to do with their original passion and end up liking their career more than they could have ever imagined, even more than the thing they thought they were passionate about.
Point of No Return
The crisis of social media addiction is that by the time we realize we're inside its bowels it is often too late as we are too dependent and weakened by a degraded self that has been curated through the lens of various social media platforms.
A.I. Will Make a Handful Rich and Relegate the Rest of Us to a Semi-Depressive Cocoon
While the tech lords will reap the benefits of A.I. the rest of us, about 98%, will be irrelevant pods consigned to our bedrooms, supported by UBI, and consoled by anti-depressants while we consume entertainment on our large-screen smartwatches and feel the pang of vague memories of what it was like to be fully human.
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