So I am a couple of weeks into a social media fast. I am finding that it has been quite therapeutic for me. Part of the madness behind the method of getting off Facebook is that everything has just gotten so ugly out there. The combination of election year politics with the stupid Coronavirus has just made everyone migrate to a small world of people of like tribe.
The reality is that if you think deeper than a meme flaming your opponent, some of these things require deep thought. Most of our worldviews are highly processed, but rarely challenged. It is possible to believe that the virus can be deadly, and people can be exploiting the fear for some type of agenda. It is possible to be highly principled in political view, and not really be satisfied with any option in a given election cycle. Life is rarely that simple.
So I used to view social media as a fun place to exchange ideas. On some level it still is with people who like to discuss things in a respectful tone. The problem is we, myself included, say such bitter hateful things we forget that we are interacting with people. The really sad thing is we might be in a bitter feud with a software bot just designed to push our buttons. The reality might be that I died a couple of years ago, and you are reading a post from a bot designed to emulate Sid. Jeremiah just said that no one could emulate you. The bot just inserted this in the text into this file as part of its predictable algorithm.
So consider this an intellectual project on my part. I want to unpack my mind and leave a written legacy that can be passed down to other generations. My grandparents died out between the mid-seventies to the mid-nineties. My mother and father died out nine and four years ago. I have lost most of my uncles and aunts. I used to love to hear their stories of life. Now I am confined to my memories. I wish I could call them up and remember more of the details.
Life is short. I used to enjoy telling my life in this blog. It is time to start writing again. I am planning to get several posts done and publish them in the future. See you soon. Until then laugh with me.
Laughing@Sid 