"I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I'm sure will pass.” —Marlon Brando as Fletcher Christian (Mutiny on the Bounty, 1962). We are living through a crisis of faith. Not in a religious sense, but one affecting our faith in other people. Social media shows us every day millions of people who do and say things we abhor and we sit and stew in it and start to believe that
I hope I'll be proven wrong, but I think the train arrived at Crazy Station a while back. So long as the underlying "theory of commerce" in social media is to keep giving the raving drunk at the bar triples, and take no responsibility for what happens after he staggers out to the parking lot and finds his car, it's going to promote the Crazy.
Which is why I like Substack. It's like the cool neighborhood joint before the riff-raff find out it's there.
If social media is the problem, what is the solution?
I hope I'll be proven wrong, but I think the train arrived at Crazy Station a while back. So long as the underlying "theory of commerce" in social media is to keep giving the raving drunk at the bar triples, and take no responsibility for what happens after he staggers out to the parking lot and finds his car, it's going to promote the Crazy.
Which is why I like Substack. It's like the cool neighborhood joint before the riff-raff find out it's there.