In Choosing to live our days on this earth, one must ask the question of to whom do I live and to what end or purpose?

We can’t ignore the rampant effect of social media on the impressionable and still-developing youthful minds of our children and this young generation. Why does this toxic invasion of self-promotion and causative self-flattery invade and impede the minds of our young people and the adults of our time? Where can one go to escape such biologically and powerfully programmable intrusion on the weak and vulnerable, who desire desperately to be heard, to be seen, to be accepted? If not to social media, then where? Why does this invasion on the mind, this utter desperation to be ‘liked’ and adored and flattered, prey so fastidiously on those who employ themselves into the machine mind of the meta-sphere, the ‘fake-book’, the audio-visual social programming tools of easy gratification and cheap, quick, forgettable and instantly replaceable ‘clicks’ and ‘comments’? How can we escape such a grasp, and become new in word and thought, choosing another way, a new way, which denies the abhorrent and pervasive individual-deconstructive world in which we find ourselves in? Is there another way?

Thankfully, I believe there is, but it is not ‘easy’ or ‘cheap’, and most would rather look the other way, except when they find themselves staring into the vast diorama of unhealthy, extremely toxic and hopeless rules of social norms and expectations we can find ourselves in. In this new way, the choice is ours, we cannot be bullied or trapped, we are not reluctant spectators in a world-gone-mad, our choice is ours, but one must be free. We cannot stand idle as hopeless fanatics stir and destroy the issues of identity, who rule with an iron fist against those who speak the elegance of simple truth, who would rather convolute and disarm basic principles and instead replace them with ideological social re-programming as is directed and manufactured by the production line of social media advents. If there is a new way, there is considerable risk, especially where there is obnoxious and obscene wilful participation into such rituals of social acceptance to parade oneself.

How can we de-program our own selves and let go of the corrupting need to parade ourselves and instead move towards a new mode of thinking, which is utterly and wonderfully free from such desperate attention-seeking forms of social communication? I believe we each know the answer to this, and it won’t come cheaply for some people, where much of social media has been carefully wired to promote and generate financial or social reward for the most avid and those-most-willing-to-exploit-self for the sake of ‘followers’ and fandom, to become cheap and easy ‘celeb-like figures’, self-employed as self-paparazzi. For many, and even amongst our youth, this requires trading our inherent and rightful worth and dignity for the exploitation of self-objectification, demeaning ourselves to mere objects, as forgettable and instantly replaceable as store-bought things, just another swipe to ‘the next thing’, and wondering why people are more depressed, more deeply lonely, more desperate and more miserable for being where there is more self-parading and self-promoting than anywhere else on this earth.

If we truly examine this ‘cheap’ and ‘common’ world of social media, we have to seriously ask the question, are the interests of dignity and privacy protected by such a scheme, or have they been markedly destroyed by it? Are such places in the interests of common denigration of the people, as ‘weak’ and ‘easy to program’, and as cesspits of toxic social re-programming for propaganda and ideological ‘woke’ and debased corrupt wicked agendas? Have we moved into the realm and sphere of debased artificial ‘realities’ where the individual is inherently without respect or value, and can and should be sold for profitable marketable outcomes, including one’s sovereign-ownership of privacy, by such institutes? If we examine these things, the conclusions are inherently deeper and harder to mask than perhaps where we are willing to go, but cannot and should not be avoided in order to keep ourselves in the comfortable experience of common submission to the ‘expected’ and ‘normal’. To surrender individual worth and dignity and exchange it for what is a degradation and destruction of such things, ultimately leads us to a hopeless, unfulfilling and downgraded existence and legacy, where by our own choosing, we allowed ourselves to become another brick in the wall.