I’ve been deeply moved watching Jordan Hall in discussion with John Vervaeke on what is needed to transcend the deep political polarities afflicting us in the current meaning crisis. Their insights have made me realize that a kind of cognitive narrowing occurs on social media platforms as a result of mindlessly scrolling and actually keeps us out of relationship with what is real and sacred.
Beautiful. Love it! And yet, there's an additional layer to this problem that I've been struggling with: My creative processes (writing for public viewing, uploading to youtube) are themselves the content feeds for others. So, to abstain from consumption in favor of creation nevertheless perpetuates consumption for someone else. The key (that I've not yet managed to integrate) is to disentangle any attachments to one's content being consumed. To not feed the beast. To publish for the sacred sake of sharing, not for reception / validation / content feedback. And here I am, writing a comment on your post, and the hypocrisy is complete. The nature of the digital medium makes this problem so slippery!
Excellent points. I've noticed that Twitter has been adding more and more individual posts to people I follow: likes, replies, retweets, etc. I want to choose what to read by reading threads, not individual posts.Also adding posts from people I have not chosen to follow... My Twitter feed is 10 times longer than it needs to be, and I don't see any way to modify it.
Beautiful. Love it! And yet, there's an additional layer to this problem that I've been struggling with: My creative processes (writing for public viewing, uploading to youtube) are themselves the content feeds for others. So, to abstain from consumption in favor of creation nevertheless perpetuates consumption for someone else. The key (that I've not yet managed to integrate) is to disentangle any attachments to one's content being consumed. To not feed the beast. To publish for the sacred sake of sharing, not for reception / validation / content feedback. And here I am, writing a comment on your post, and the hypocrisy is complete. The nature of the digital medium makes this problem so slippery!
Excellent points. I've noticed that Twitter has been adding more and more individual posts to people I follow: likes, replies, retweets, etc. I want to choose what to read by reading threads, not individual posts.Also adding posts from people I have not chosen to follow... My Twitter feed is 10 times longer than it needs to be, and I don't see any way to modify it.
Thanks for writing this - I want to try and apply this to my own creation:consumption ratio!
Consider “what is real and sacred” can only be created. Everything else is illusion