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Why? Have you already said?

 

I think so :0

 

Most of my posts are verbose, I am verbose. I am not infrequently disappointed by the amount of replies I receive for sharing my thoughts. Forgive me my arrogance but I am not misunderstanding why this is so.

Basically, yes that is correct Hedge, and the reason I don't want to comment further is because of how such a conjecture would be ill received. Being that you seem to be more than intimately familiar with psychedelics, I should think that if I were to speak of this in terms of ominous shadows, of disembodied but ever-present darkness, you might not so readily dismiss the picture. Darkness and shadow don't necessarily imply evil, and this picture absolutely does exist and I don't mean solely within the jilted tapestry of fragmented minds. There are forces at work which forever remain beyond the tides of consciousness; these things are set into motion seemingly by accident and take on forms without precedent, and although it is us who gives life to these things, one can't help but wonder who exactly is in control, right?

Matt pointed out that Facebook is a tool of exploitation and control by our superiors, and I think that this is missing the point. A rudimentary epistemic consideration of the matter would suggest that neither are our superiors our superiors, that this is a narrow reactionary position to take and lacks any numinosity. I may look at a social phenomenon and behold a ship lost at sea during a storm, and understand this to be a distillation of many things all of which are beyond my reach, but it is an image with meaning and no less valid than the image of our slave masters implementing fantastic technological tools by which our minds are controlled for their comfort. The hive mind is something tangible and yet obscured from our immediate comprehension, and social networking allows us to get that much closer to it. But what "it" is nobody actually knows, and like any mystery close at hand, trepidation is appropriate and nothing to be ashamed of.

 

I have Facebook. yup I do.

 

I have it active again as I was curious about that candy crush game .........lordy it is addictive.

Years ago the kids signed me up as they would send pictures of time on holidays with their dad. They really did not use it so I never did for years.

I do not use it other than for that game as most people I wish to be in touch with I am.

 

I wish I were with you on that one. I would delete it if it was only the friends I can easily keep in touch with who I had added.

Unfortunately for me, my contacts are very very distributed and nobody in my generation seems to want to use any other form of communication, so I will loose touch with so many important people -- people who I need to contact for places to stay when I travel and stuff like that -- if I delete it. But I really want to. It's bringing my grades down and killing my sleep habits and stuff.

VEry bad for my life :/ But I'm stuck with it. I wish everyone would just dip at once. I would delete it if I could get everyones email all at once collectively, but, even if the young people would still answer their emails, they won't all send them to me and I'll loose touch with at least a couple important contacts if i delete it

this is so fkn frustrating

 

About young people using fb solely as a means of communication...

its some older people too...for example, my brother-in-law, who is far from young (although he would cry big tears if he knew I said that - lol), will ONLY reply to pms on fb. I can email him all day long and it is only a waste of time if I expect him to acknowledge it, much less reply.

I know a few other (older) people like that, but none worse than BIL. I think a lot has to do with the kind of work/business they are in.

 

It's fucking annoying. Because they're screwing over the rest of us!

 

it's not their fault that you don't have the self control to not waste your time on facebook

 

Yes it is... :leaving:

 

no, that's not their fault. What is their fault is that they force us to use a shitty fucking technology. I could control my facebook problem, and I do when I have a lot of shit to do, but I'd rather not have to use it altogether.

These people are complicit in the abuse of all of our minds.

 

I think they would still pick up the phone or read your e-mail, Hedge. It only feels they are forcing you because miss out on party pics, dates of parties (nobody give a normal/analog invitation anymore, group discussions with friends, birthday notifications etc.