Time to -- "Put Your Phone Down and Open Your Mind Up"
We used to read and share ideas. Now people share non-sensical experiences of people experiencing non-sense. TikTok is MindRot, when it imprisons us from living a real experience.
Experience is real. Experience is one of the three elements of reality - time, space, and experience. Need proof and an explanation. Jail is time served in a cell restricted from the experiences of a free society.
Digital and social media are not evil, but they have become a substitute from living a ‘real life.’ It is true that people in the past often did climb into books and exit reality for much of their lives. The true problem is not the type of media — phone-accessed social media is just the latest form of social reclusion that we have invented.
The problem is when people have cowardice and do not open up to and engage with the real world they are immersed in. Their self-created prisons chain up their freedom and they use media, digital (digits are fingers) or paper, to dominate their time and substitute their experience. Obviously before we had phones, the ‘boob tube’ ensconced our minds and robbed us of time to talk and authentically interact with other humans.
Authentic interaction with other humans in live time and space is the most validating experience humans can have. We are social creatures and living is ‘being social.’ Self-isolated humans will turn their surroundings into the community of “people” like Wilson in Cast Away. Such seeming ‘insanity’ helps us maintain our actual sanity and is proof of our need for the social to be sane.