unqualified/un-described
everything is perfectly
what it is
why limit it to
dualistic qualification/description
and pretend the
qualification/description
is what it is?
in other words
why take the
cave wall shadows
to be
the reality?
okay
maybe
i
AM
be
coming
a
neo-luddite
the less engagement with
the
\\online world//
the
m o r e +++
my disilusionment
G R O W S
i DO still enjoy certain places
BUT
other spaces annoy the ever loving--
...fuck did i spend SO much time on reddit?!
i guess that answer is:
A
m Ot He R-
f@¢#ing
LOT
OF
W HI S KEY
sober i can't STAND the place
even the fediverse
has lost
it's original lustre
i think it's a matter of
d/i/S¡¢/O•n/eC\±|T•i/o•N--\
you're just one more anon
in a sea of anonyminity
sure
we're anon here too
but it's more intimate
like
seeing the same person at the bus stop
i may not know you
but we're familar
feel each other's
e-s-s-e-n-c-e
it's why i loved small forums
in the early aughts
cozy
anyway
i digress
my disdain grows
but my fondness for the
small,
cozy places
grows
online
as well as
in the world
i guess it's a return
to the original promise the web offered:
a more connected world
BUT
the onus is on US
to make the right
C-O-N-N-E-C-T-I-O-N-S
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unqualified/un-described
everything is perfectly
what it is
why limit it to
dualistic qualification/description
and pretend the
qualification/description
is what it is?
in other words
why take the
cave wall shadows
to be
the reality?
truth
in reality
the web IS
what we make it
how we shape it
and the part of the map
that we choose
to demarcate
my frustration lies
in succumbing to
the enticements of the superficial web
i shouldn't be suprised
really it's more
the disappointment
of falling for the same, superflous
schtick for too long
I feel much less
succumbing
of late
but you got me
thinking
this place might be called
The Confessional?
just a *passing* thought
elsewhere, per the following link
"The Offline BBS" seems like
an online something
in the spirit of previously mentioned
"Bus Stop", "The Void", etc.:
gopher://thelambdalab.xyz/0phlog/2024-08-16-Offline-BBSing.txt
oooOh
have to check that out
soon
gopher doesn't
play nice with android
I have the gophercle browser
but it won't load the link
before leaving Twitter in Sept 2019, I always assumed/sorta knew I was legitimately pathalogically addicted to it. I figure "addiction, but not chemical - so not the same or as severe, right?". I was wrong. I found the following months to be just as significantly difficult (with time, habits, urge - though not a physical detox, obviously) as it had been with quitting booze or amphetamines as a teenager. I had a brief addiction to video games when I was 20 - played them constantly, ever 15 mins I would want to sit down and fill a void with some gameplay. This lasted only six months, so I didn't have much memory of "going away" from a digital addiction. After 10 years on Twitter, I knew I would have to make sincere and authentic mental shifts to leave/stay away from it. It wasn't a "take it or leave it thing" like I assumed/presumed it to be in 2009/2010 - use a thing, ANY thing, multiple times a day, every day, years on-end, a decade plus, and it's gonna form into an addiction.
What was neat/good about leaving (or fascinating, initially) was how I was changing HOW I was thinking about things. Like my brain was re-routing to ways it had not done in many years. I used to think in a "set pattern" about things, all things, in life. And then as time (months, a year or more) went on, I saw the "unshakable" views/perceptions I had of the world alter to be different - some (most) more positive/optimistic, some even more realist and pessemistic - but more akin to HOW my brain worked and how I AM in the world au naturale - not a digital dependency having pre-dominant influence over it (my ways of seeing/being in the world).
anyway, things get better - takes time, legwork, et al. But all better int he end :)
stay well, wolf
Oh yeah, I used 4chan for a number of years. Honestly I left 4chan not too long after it was clear that it was going down the drain. But for a number of years I used it and for a number of years after that I used a so-called 'altchan'. Just recently I stopped using said altchan, as the realization dawned on me that I was concerning myself with stuff I didn't give a shit about but which were implanted in my conscious mind by reading them on that site. I "valued" stuff that had no value for me. I thought important stuff that I didn't actually care much about.
Today I saw a comment written by a 4chan user and, boy it shows. It's interesting to see just how evident the patterns of thought and speech are in a person who is immersed in that medium.
I also noticed that each time I get away from those kinds of sites, my life starts changing for the better. It's just like drugs. A person who is addicted to crack can let 10 years pass and afterwards have no recollection of what happened during those 10 years on crack.