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social media is the smoking of our age
like cigarettes in the sixties and seventies
promoted in adverts
their harmful effects denied
people did not merely become addicted
their addiction was denied by paid “experts”
or even declared to be healthy
smoking was sexy
an indispensable accessory
just as social media is today: unavoidable sex appeal
made culturally desirable through marketing
morally rotten corporate giants
profit from people’s mental illnesses
social media is the smoking of this age
in the street, instead of cigarettes, they clutch smartphones
instead of nicotine, they inhale likes
instead of tar, they are poisoned by constant noise
and instead of lung cancer, they become mentally ill
and quitting social media
is even harder, because it does not only make you addicted
it makes you stupid
morally degrades you
and creates the illusion in people
that they live in a virtual environment
where another reality
is governed by different rules
the cure is the same too
complete withdrawal, complete cleansing
and seeing the true face
of large corporations: where joy, sorrow, suffering
beauty, ugliness, life, death
are just another piece of content to them
with which they mine the oil of our age: people’s data
and the worst thing is that, if you quit
if you stop
and you see all this
and tell them
humanity’s future drowned by social media
by propaganda, marketing, lies —
you are left alone,
and most people laugh at you
funny
yeah