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Dancing With the Black Madonna's avatar

Yes, m'am. I've been thinking more deeply, especially as I considered and then did, indeed, pull the plug of my involvement with IG, FB, etc., that this is all a grand delusion, a mass hypnosis, a hex. As I spoke to people about my decision, the professed their helplessness ("But I have friends here!" "It's how I stay in-touch with family!" "Where can I find community?!"), as if this recent iteration of the human need for connection hasn't been the smallest of blips on the radar of human history and pre-history, as if our species hadn't developed over tens of thousands of years within a different context than what we're now experiencing.

This post of yours reminds me of something in the Vedas, that 90% of the world's souls don't want to wake up. To jump culture and time period, many are content watching the shadows on the wall, because they're more comfortable shackled to the rock than they are in the sun's glare, free to make their own decisions.

I'm so curious where you're taking all of this!

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Mia Arends's avatar

And yet, amidst a culture of reality deniers, you are not only speaking, but being heard. People are craving this type of content because it acknowledges that consensus reality… is not all that there is. Thank you for writing, and I look forward to more meme dissection 😮‍💨🤭

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