And Then There Were None

Quitting Twitter.

I never accepted the previous propaganda model. But the current, every human a propaganda & meme point, is not any better. Not for me, at least.

I just wrote about quitting Facebook. Not exactly brave stuff, nor is it original. In fact, given how badly Facebook acted in the past, I’m not sure why I didn’t pull the trigger earlier. Right now my previous excuses of keeping in touch with people from across the world and needing to be the voice of reason in the sea of misinformation all seem to be, well, wrong.

And I think with Twitter (part of the reason, or so we’re told, for the Arab Spring and for grassroots movements like BLM not to mention other uses) was something I thought I had to hold on to have my voice heard and to have a way to inform people.

It was not that.

At all.

I should have known this in the midst of the Syrian civil war. I tried to follow a small spattering of voices from different sides and all I got was propaganda from everyone and not a single bit of good information. Indeed, hearing all the sides wasn’t possible, and I sense that was part of the point.

Keep sending so many different viewpoints that no mind can hold them all.

And so I didn’t and I stopped following many of them with their gore as viewpoints.

But, I was still wary of the mainstream (as anyone should be) news and kept that to myself.