Mankind Must Fight With His Own Stupidity
Beware, for the powers that be glorify stupidity in the age of digital narcissism!
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If you’re new to Self Love Bites, welcome home! If you’re old as gold, thank you for being here! This month’s topic is technological devices that rule our lives.
I have nothing against gays and lesbians. Let me be very clear. I know gays and lesbians personally and they are smart and talented. I think there are smart people everywhere. There are also stupid people everywhere.
The problem is when social media perpetuating the message that feeds the ego and doesn’t nothing for the soul of the human.
I was a regular reader and writer on Medium.com. Now my pronoun is bitch! In rainbow colors. Because rainbows are beautiful and oh, they are so cute. Anything in rainbow colors makes it appear pretty to the eyes.
Medium dot com’s regular black and white logo has been temporarily updated to show its support for pride month. An entire month!
The moment I realized that certain voices the speak to sanity are being suppressed on social media, especially Medium since I was a regular writer on that platform, I planned my exit. I’m no longer a paying member who wishes to read stories that are chosen for me by a platform. Shame on Medium. Shame on You-Tube. Shame on Instagram. Shame on all the people who perpetuate the message of stupidity and glorify mental health. What has that done to society?
Many a voice that speak sense, promote health and sanity are being silenced. You only need to open your eyes and look on social media. American author and commentator Candace Owens has moved her podcast to a private platform after You-Tube censored her videos and Daily Wire’s ego grew too big to bow down to an intelligent woman of color. Barbara O’Neill has been banned in Australia on claims that make no sense.
More rights and gender equality have only increased mental health problems. There are other factors such as food, water, and nutrition that contribute to the problem that can’t be undermined. But man has come to a point where he is clueless about helping himself. Victim mentality is celebrated. It’s unhelpful.
It makes people narcissistic. There have been multiple studies done on the correlation between social media and narcissism. Here’s one study on research gate.
In seconds, one can share self-enhancing content—flattering pictures, boastful statuses—with a potential audience of millions and receive immediate feedback in the form of “likes” and comments from followers. One can share as little or as much as one wants to present exactly the self-image one desires. - Narcissism and Social Media Use: A Meta-Analytic Review (November 2016)
Here’s another study in spring 2015 on Narcissism and Social Networking Sites: The Act of Taking Selfies. And another one from Pew research titled The Effect of Social Media Use On Narcissistic Behavior. This study posited that those who use social media more often are more likely to exhibit narcissistic behavior.
Do you know which emotion gets the most attention on social media?
It’s anger. People with reactions to other people’s content are getting more attention because their reactions evoke anger among their viewers. Understanding hedonism and narcissism is fundamental to reflect on their influences on our lives and society. Hedonism preaches that individual pleasure is the supreme good of human life. Narcissism describes an excess of self-love and concern for personal image. Hedonism and narcissism may be interconnected, as they both share the search for individual pleasure. Identifying with feelings is foolish because the nature of feelings is fleeting.
Doing what one “feels like ” all the time is a supposed ticket to ‘freedom’. Throwing all responsibility, caution, and common sense to the wind, and living as wildly and precariously as we can because that’s all the matter. Because we only live once.
This stupidity has been going on for a long time. This has to end because MANKIND will benefit from people living with higher morals. It makes for a safe and sane society that the individual as well as society will reap benefits of.
Shame is also a strong emotion, but we don’t use it enough. We need to shame the people who have their lost morals of human conduct. We need to shame men who assume important positions and fail to live up to their duties. We need to shame women who have stopped behaving like respectful women on the streets as well as on social media.
Perpetuating bingeing, sugar consumption, drinking, smoking, sexual liberation, nudity, transgenderism, euthanasia, and addictions of all kinds to the point of normalizing ill health, manipulation, and lack of responsibility IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. A healthy society can’t function at this level of stupidity.
That’s what they want - the powers that be. And they don’t care. They will never care.
You as a human have to fight your inner demons in order to become a more conscious person. The only solution there is. You have to wake up, realize how you were being mislead, unlearn your old behaviors, install new beliefs and healthy habits in order to know the truth. The truth reveals itself to those who are open, educate themselves, and are focused on growth and evolution.
This is self-discipline. Self-discipline is self-love. This is what I teach.
If you’re looking to work with a coach to bring more discipline, aka self-love into your life, please write to me at Optimysticoachk@gmail.com