And instead of trying to prevent the source of this cognitive decline, we diagnose everyone with ADHD as if the problem is with people's brains and not the society we live in and then we put them on medication. So social media companies, pharmaceutical companies and the rich in general benefit from this but what about the rest of us? And how do we fix things now?
I was going to comment on this, but I sorta lost my tren de pensamiento if you know what I mean. True, true, Tom, we are all getting blasted by Neuralyzers of many varieties, from sunup to sundown, and it is just not so easy to maintain focus. I used to know pi to many digits 3.14159265954...oops, that is where this train runs out of steam. We are not the men we used to be. And it's not just aging, either.
AI will only make this worse, but Re the Neutralizer: I am Soul connected and we as a planet are ascending- believe it or not - and I asked my Soul how will all this egocentric separateness be replaced by Oneness. I was shown a box of really old photos ( our collective past) and when I pulled one out- it was blank, on both sides ! Another and the same- all blank as each was. That is how it will happen - we will lose our past, our story. It is how we self identify, but we won’t need to do that any more.
“We don’t realize we’re drowning…the water’s warm” is analogous to the frog in the slowly simmering pot with the temperature changes too subtle to notice until too late - to jump out! You and others have diagnosed the situation accurately. Our next steps are essential to reclaim our simmering social media minds.
Yes, LinkedIn used to be the gentleman's club with cognac and cigars ...
And now is more like the disco in a church basement 🤠
Yes! It’s hot, crowded, the music’s too loud, and the chaperones are overbearing. Put another way: it’s hell.
And instead of trying to prevent the source of this cognitive decline, we diagnose everyone with ADHD as if the problem is with people's brains and not the society we live in and then we put them on medication. So social media companies, pharmaceutical companies and the rich in general benefit from this but what about the rest of us? And how do we fix things now?
Increasingly, our solutions resemble Band-Aids on bullet holes.
I was going to comment on this, but I sorta lost my tren de pensamiento if you know what I mean. True, true, Tom, we are all getting blasted by Neuralyzers of many varieties, from sunup to sundown, and it is just not so easy to maintain focus. I used to know pi to many digits 3.14159265954...oops, that is where this train runs out of steam. We are not the men we used to be. And it's not just aging, either.
"It's the phones, stupid!" —James Carville, circa 2025
AI will only make this worse, but Re the Neutralizer: I am Soul connected and we as a planet are ascending- believe it or not - and I asked my Soul how will all this egocentric separateness be replaced by Oneness. I was shown a box of really old photos ( our collective past) and when I pulled one out- it was blank, on both sides ! Another and the same- all blank as each was. That is how it will happen - we will lose our past, our story. It is how we self identify, but we won’t need to do that any more.
“We don’t realize we’re drowning…the water’s warm” is analogous to the frog in the slowly simmering pot with the temperature changes too subtle to notice until too late - to jump out! You and others have diagnosed the situation accurately. Our next steps are essential to reclaim our simmering social media minds.