Our time and energy is being capitalized. Not only that, our social interactions and connections to each other. What has that culminated in? Superficiality.
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Instead of incentivizing legitimate personal growth and emotional development, we incentivized faking for profit and striving for superficial markers of success and validation. (Social media didn't create this problem, it exacerbated an existing one.) And what has that resulted in? A house of cards.
Strengthening egos and furthering division. Competing with one another over who's better at performing the role of 'good person' versus actually cultivating integrity and doing good. And all that time, all those resources wasted, meanwhile others are suffering.
All that time we could have been growing and strengthening our communities. All that time stolen from others who are forced to fight every day of their lives.
Every ounce of energy you invest contributes to the future you manifest. Memes are destructive and inappropriate when it comes to subjects like this. We've been drawn so far away from reality and our own humanity.
We've got to get serious about implications, nuance, context, repercussions, consequences... We've got to focus on developing emotional maturity and strengthening our social awareness.
Time does not stand still. There is no such thing as neutrality. There is no such thing as stagnation when people's lives are being negatively affected. You're either contributing to the problem or contributing to the solution. Choose who and what you invest in wisely.
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