Sharing videos of someone like Don Jr. is just reveling in someone else’s mental unwellness, contributes to a toxic culture of spectacle, and actually increases his ability to poison disclose and enlarges his communication ability.
It’s a lose-lose situation, all the way around.
It’s a lose-lose situation, all the way around.
These social media channels thrive and profit off damaging anti-discourse, incentivize divisive, dangerous behavior, and work to couple these outrageous characters like Don Jr, MTG, and Boebert and the outrage they produce.
The only way to get past this is opt-out.
The only way to get past this is opt-out.
The Trump Presidency needs to be a lesson. This moment of political and societal crisis didn’t just happen. We have to learn from it, get better, and make choices that’ll fix this.
Continuing to wallow in spectacle and feeding these damaging profit structures only makes it worse
Continuing to wallow in spectacle and feeding these damaging profit structures only makes it worse
I get that Don Jr is a shambling disaster and the embodiment of a ridiculous, incoherent Right Wing anti-ideology. But these blatant cries for attention are building a profit structure off sharing that agrees with him and sharing by those outraged or amused.
Just let it go.
Just let it go.
Social media isn’t just a vacuum. They’re forums wired explicitly and intentionally for profit. We’re subject to psychological strategies and they lead to inherently damaging, society-destroying results because of the structure.
We can do better if we recognize this.
We can do better if we recognize this.
Our political, economic, and social systems are all functioning explicitly around anti-societal results. We’re feeding that by participating in social media habits that prioritize and profit off troll-based outrage. We’re in a bad cycle, but we can choose to get out.
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