Always good advice: Make your own entertainment; create your own art; and use Twitter sparingly and only to help spread joy or wisdom: https://twitter.com/moviewise 🤗
As one of the characters, Cypher, says in "The Matrix" (1999):
"I think that the Matrix can be more real than this world." So don't unplug, just reshape your reality. Remember, there is no spoon (movie scene):
All rather convincing. I managed to convince myself I needed Twitter to stay across everything that was going on in the world. All very significant. I told myself it was beneficial as a resource for my teaching. Hard to treat it objectively, however. Scrolling is addictive, period.
Lovely, thank you. I recently wrote a little blog post called "Envy machines" on this very same topic, *and* I've been seeing more and more users of the blue bird start to pull up B.F. Skinner's name and question what we're doing. Signs of life!
I share your loathing for the term 'content', as well as any references to oneself as a 'content creator'. It can all be categorized as either Art or Advertising in my book.
Excellent article as always, and great advice also. I've sent these to my friends in the hopes of breaking them free of the gamified pull of social media, and it seems to be resonating.
Hope the new approach to Twitter has already started paying dividends in your day-to-day enjoyment of life.
Always good advice: Make your own entertainment; create your own art; and use Twitter sparingly and only to help spread joy or wisdom: https://twitter.com/moviewise 🤗
As one of the characters, Cypher, says in "The Matrix" (1999):
"I think that the Matrix can be more real than this world." So don't unplug, just reshape your reality. Remember, there is no spoon (movie scene):
https://moviewise.substack.com/p/fifteen-great-movies-each-written
Hi Thomas,
May I use this article as a resource for my Senior English class?
Oh and here's me not-tweeting not-content - https://www.choirofone.com/
All rather convincing. I managed to convince myself I needed Twitter to stay across everything that was going on in the world. All very significant. I told myself it was beneficial as a resource for my teaching. Hard to treat it objectively, however. Scrolling is addictive, period.
Lovely, thank you. I recently wrote a little blog post called "Envy machines" on this very same topic, *and* I've been seeing more and more users of the blue bird start to pull up B.F. Skinner's name and question what we're doing. Signs of life!
I share your loathing for the term 'content', as well as any references to oneself as a 'content creator'. It can all be categorized as either Art or Advertising in my book.
Excellent article as always, and great advice also. I've sent these to my friends in the hopes of breaking them free of the gamified pull of social media, and it seems to be resonating.
Hope the new approach to Twitter has already started paying dividends in your day-to-day enjoyment of life.