There is so much conflicting information about it is hard to tell what's right, from stupid.
All of this is compounded by the fact that we now live in an attention economy, which is effectively a time acquisition economy. The whole point of the world inside cyber is to ream your pockets. However, with such easy access to information and such ease with which you can produce passable information, or agenderise it to polarise or advertise, you just don't know which way to jump.
It is an uncertain time and opacity seems to be the norm, so everything ìs opaque, regardless of facts that are just in the mix. Add to that uncomfortable truths or comforting lies and it just becomes a total mess.
Part of me thinks that binning off Social Media completely is the
answer because trying to narrow your purview to mitigate rage just puts you in
a bubble or an echo chamber, and that isn't healthy, so the best bet is just a
position of ignorance is bliss outside.
How does anyone make a sensible decision? And is
the actual biggest worry: Getting into an argument on Facebook? Because we're
all just confused? And really and truly Social Media is where we all vent, so
it's tense, but I'm not sure it's as tense out in the UK at large. Elsewhere I
have no clue. I haven't left the country for over a year, so I haven't seen our
nearest neighbour countries, to know if they are; nowhere near as tense either.
We've been mushroomed from all sides, be they
politicians, pundits, agitators, vested interests, the media (including the
stuff we add) everyone's had a go, even us.
As a world, we all need some headspace and a bit of
calm and kindness. And the obligatory, time. However, try getting a consensus
on that as an idea.
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