Rich people, powerful people, or intelligent people want to make the fool stay foolish, because they need workers to work for them, they need people to do repetitive boring jobs, they have houses to be cleaned, dinner to be cooked, and cars to be driven by the fools. If everyone live to their fullest potential, who will serve them? That is why they like platforms like Twitter, Tiktok, Temu, Spotify, and Netflix, but never waste their time on them. Such platforms take advantages of your sexual desire, curiousity, laziness, imagination, willing to adventure, and willingness to know more, be wiser, be more knowledgable. They offer colorful bubbles right in front of you to attract your attention, to trigger one or more of those natural instincts of you, so that you stay glued. Then when the time comes all these bubbles burst into nothingness. Your time, your attention, your shallow thinking-along, all burst into nothingness. You receive a lot of information daily, but how much of them stayed until the next morning? How much of which have helped you to better your life in the long term? Entertainment without constrains never benefit you in the long term. Improvements or growth seldom come from reading a twitts or an article. Yes, you can be inspired by words from someone, and change your life. But first of all, how much chance are those right words going to arrive at your door at the right moment of your life by accident or by algorithm? Secondly, inspiration never change your life, your changed action change your life. If the inspiration you received changed your perception or your idea but never change a dame thing you do daily, sorry, that is just another bubble waiting to burst. How can we do better? Change the perception could be the first step. Decide for yourself according to your own experience if 90% of the information you receive everyday doesn’t stay in your brain in the next week, 99.9% of the information doesn’t change anything you do, then tell yourself, there is no surprise, no life savior waiting for you in those feeds, posts, recommendations, or whatever other name it has. Secondly, consume only information you choose base on your needs. Thirdly, once have a rough plan, don’t over think, take the first step, then another, then another. Remember change are the result of action, not thinking. We learn much more by interacting with the environment than meditating on a cave.
I blamed spotify together with other social media platforms. Some may argue, I enjoy listening to music; music make me relax; music is good for my mental health; music is good, so spotify is good. I meditate about the subject of music a lot. Here are some of my ideas: Music is powerful. It has a long long history and influenced generations. Some music heals. Some music comforts. Some music inspires. The best music teaches you the pattern of life uncountinously. That’s when you feel the resonance, you tear up to a music even without lyrics. So, we need music like we need hugs and like we need stories. However, not all music come from paradise, some of them are coming directly from the hell. They numb you with meaningless overly repeatative patterns, so that you follow along, work on the things on your hand, and never think. Think about things that are utter important to you: future, self-improvement, career, relationship. Things all irrelevant to your employer. What’s important to them? Get the things in your hand done. So if you listen to your favorite list of music all day long while working on something boring, are they your friends, or are they your brain sleeping pills? If you have the cottage to admit that they are brain sleeping pills, try stop taking them, experience some silence. We think sharply when it’s silent outside. You need that if you have a better version of your self need to be realized.