When I was growing up the internet was a place to be liberated from the world say what you want to say, be whoever you want and form genuine communities with shared interests. Now the internet feels like a tool to enslave the mind with identity echo chambers and any deviation leads you to being banned and blocked shunned and silenced within a void that is inescapable. Novel unique websites coded manually by hobbyists running servers for free in the commons allowing people access to the free flow of information under the banner of “information should be free” has largely gone away with corpratisation. I miss the days when the internet was populated largely by nerds aiming to make a better world not this controlled censored hell hole of profiteering.
I’m interacting with more people in a day than most people have in historical lifetimes.
I have more bosses to track their preferences. It feels like there’s more people checking my career. They have more people to try to balance autonomy with direction.
There’s more politicians talking past their constituency than ever before.
It just seems like the goal to reduce the suffering around me will always be a drop in the ocean.
Yeah it’s overwhelming, I think we should just turn the internet off for a month nation wide.