Social Media Is Destroying Humanity

So if this is something that you think might upset your precious sensibilities or political leaning, well have a nice day, ‘cause this isn’t for you.

Social media is the worst fucking thing that has ever happened. Worse than world wars. Worse than all the crimes you can think of. Worse than having to eat your peas when you were a kid.

Social media has done one thing to bring about the destruction of humanity. Just one fucking thing. It has, though its very egalitarian nature, destroyed the idea of objective reality. And by objective reality, I mean truth.

There is not a human being on social media today who has the slightest idea what the truth is. Not even me and up till the last couple of years, I thought I had a pretty good handle on it.

But no more. I am lost in an old under-inflated innertube floating on a sea of lies, rumours, innuendo, supposition, cons and scams and various assorted other bullshit.

I have no idea what to believe about anything anymore.

I used to believe that there was hope that the world could finally figure out that if it became a unified place and shared the things it knew, it could be a better place for everyone.

But instead it very much appears to be filling up with people who would much rather divide than join, much rather hate than love, much rather wallow in ignorance than cultivate the capabilities of their mind.

And they fill the walls of the social media world with bullshit beyond belief. But it comes at us so hard and so fast and in such volume these days that it has bent our minds. It has warped our perceptions, and it has dragged more than its share of lost souls over to the dark side, where they are willing to believe anything that’s put in front of them so long as the painful process of actually thinking things through is removed from their to do lists.

Being a cockeyed optimist, I try to convince myself that this isn’t really the destruction of the intellect, but merely a rather large sinkhole that the majority of us will somehow figure out how to circumvent.

But who the fuck am I kidding? Probably just myself, holding on to the now antiquated notion that there is any such thing as truth out there.

But I do have a memory and I do remember a simpler time before the world of social media became contaminated with lies and hate and all purpose bullshit.

And though it pains me to admit it, I no longer believe it’s possible to get back there.

The only truth we know is the truth we tell the people we love. And we don’t do that by broadcasting it to the world, praying like fools that the world will ‘like’ our sentiment. Feeling depressed and dejected if they don’t. Lashing out because this social media world has turned you, quite subtly, into an attention junkie, who will believe anything, like anything, comment on anything, just to cause a reaction.

It is a very big inner tube we are floating on the sea of bullshit in. It’s holds billions of us. All looking for the truth, but no longer with any sort of clue as to what that might be.