Podcasts can't solve anything, there's just a way of sharing. People respond to intensives; if being a X pays off then people will pretend to be one. Mainstream media, given their higher budget, should provide better value. Modern media rewards charisma over the truth because it's less exiting. Victimhood doesn't work for men, and rightly so as they are more disposable than women. Feeling sorry for men won't fix them, they need to be better. Maybe we all follow X thinking everyone wants to when in fact nobody does. Humans love a doomsday narrative and feel like we live in a special time: global cooling, global warning, population decrease, etc. Is the climate changing a bad thing? Way more people are killed by cold weather than hot. Social media has broken our ability to make sense of the world. You don't have free speech if you have a moderation policy. Would revolution happen today with a systemic moderation? Technology multiplies words power. Too much moderation makes you see as biased from all sides of the scale. The monopoly is what makes tech valuable, nobody wants to use the 3rd Google and dragging people over is almost impossible. People converge towards the biggest and the best. Others of a product (social media) are part the value, like clubs and concerts.
Konstantin KisinThe Internet provides answers to everything to the point that we no longer form our own opinions but outsource them to them. Instead of digging into them, if we even have one, we can easily find confirmations that we are apparently right. This leads to polarizing conversations with superlatives like "The most X" and the creation of gurus who claim to think for everyone like a sophist who reassures the masses. Separation into closed spaces prevents us from confronting our points of view.
Cole HastingsThe more choices you have, the less satisfied you are with each one. The harder you work, the easier life gets, the more you avoid work, the more difficult life gets. The more you hate a trait in someone else, the more likely you are avoiding it in yourself. The more afraid your are to fail the more likely you are to fail, the more you're okay with failure the less likely failure becomes. The more something makes you uncomfortable, the more you should probably do it. The more connected we get, the more isolated we feel. The more afraid you are of death, the less you will be able to enjoy your life.
Mark MansonWe stopped feeling because life appears to only hurt. What you once loved is now automatic, nice went from felt to intellectualized. It is normal if you've lived a bit, but shouldn't be the end. Being detached helps avoiding bad feeling but it shouldn't be taken too far. Changing your activities, from adding/removing friends/hobbies to discovering new ideas, is good. Albert Camus wrote "In the middle of winter, I discovered that there was in me an invincible summer". Life moves in season meaning you can't always be energized, warm, bright, and welcoming. It's up to you to foster new life from your internal world. This internal invincible summer is all you'll ever have and all you'll ever need.
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