The Media and the people.....How Much have you Educated yourself...How Social is your social media activities

 

 The coming of the internet brought many good things, more than ever people were now able to communicate with friends and relations near and far. 

But the advent of the internet also brought about it a new way of manipulation, people high up can use it as a way to influence the outcome of things, the general public can always be blind to things happening around them.

  Have you not considered the wealth of distractions at your disposal in the twenty-first century? 

We are swimming in a world of stimulation — valuable media for communicating a message, for sure, but equally valuable media for communicating no certain messages at all, which is even better.

  The introduction of VR is taking things to a whole new level. 

All that needs to be done is to direct that inundation of irrelevancy into people’s head by all possible avenues — and the avenues are abundant. It is as easy as setting up an RSS feed that is sure to keep people informed of all the important events of the day.

 Since we have some inside connections with those who determine what is important, you can rest assured that most of these messages will motivate very little war-waging for the Enemy.  We live in a pivotal era — the Information Age. Given the right information, things could go very badly for people at the top.  

Unfortunately, we are self-congratulatory about how much we know, while knowing very little of anything important. We are continually convinced that what is really important is that which comes to us quickly and second-hand. 

 The more media, the weaker our capacity to make observations on our own, it is even obvious on some Channels, watch a video on YouTube the algorithm automatically gives you more videos of the same nature, and those Videos that are actually “recommended” for you are mostly paid for.

 And I have not yet even touched on “social media” — the evidence of the human’s dullness is contained in that very description. 

Some are blissfully convinced that what it means to be social is to blab on about every meaningless event from morning until night. 

Nothing is more destructive to human “society” than the “me-monster.” What a delightful oxymoron social media is, we really have to learn to keep quiet some times and listen to what the world have to say, a minute of thought is better than an hour of talk. 

Be Human I went to a conference recently and when it was time for a break, people resorted to browsing on their phones, instead of connecting with the people physically there with them.   

Look how they have created all of these great ways for communicating! It is left to us to twist those avenues as subtly and violently as possible, or at least drown the Message in a cacophony of noise. 

 Refrain from posting everytime, even though we are given four post a day on Steemit, learn to read other peoples blog and drop a nice comment now and then, that’s how you make friends. It pays to be Human. 

Special thanks to @verbal-d for inspiring this piece with his pearlescect poems. 

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