my mind comes and goes, especially with all the trauma stimuli (i'd guess this's common) but i generally just post through it. not ideal, obv. i had an interaction recently where someone said they were resisting the urge to post politics on here, that the last thing anyone needs is more unqualified output. got me thinking bout posting, what/why/who/how. seems a bit of a strange way to approach social media, especially in light of the prospect of a deluge of gpt slop.
i have zero qualifications that signify expertise tho i have many that indicate aptitude and some signifying some legal minimum standard that's allowed me to practice in one regulated field or another. my history may be untypically broad given i've not had anything like a career and have generally stuck at something only long enough to satisfy curiosity before falling in a heap or moving on to something else. i have only experience and impressions filtered thru the same but nothing approaching expertise. and all of that mediated through a tidal cognitive reservoir meted by the spoonful. not ideal.
i sympathise with the idea that we might should all exercise a bit of restraint. we're all wading through backwaters of sub cognitive expression, otherwise hit by torrents of marketing, digital megastructures oriented to monetisation of every joule we direct at one screen or another. the banality of it all kind of lulls us into stupor in the face of the malignity behind it. the question, i guess, is what do we owe, in light of all this, our comrades and neighbours who like us're massaging pixels onscreen in one way or another in pursuit of something like recognition?
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