There are no reliable narrators on social media

Tuesday 8/20/24

That's because everyone is either

Lying.

Has an agenda.

Is up to something.

Wants something.

Is seeking validation as act unto itself.

Desires attention in and of itself.

Takes what may have once been a truth and examines it with an eye towards how it will play to others on that forum and then edits and alters that truth as desired with certain responses from those people in mind or as a goal and becomes less and less capable themselves of recognizing truth and what is real and what is not over time.

Is aiming to be liked no matter what even for things they don't really think or aren't.

Cannot accurately report what they see or hear because of personal biases, emotions, insecurities, anxieties, needs, fears, anger, self-medication issues, prejudices, desires.

Seek to convince themselves that something they know or fear is false is actually true via the volume of responses to that thing and the content/spirt of those responses--however insincere--from others.

Use the format for venting, which is almost always different from accurately depicting.

Have nothing else and thus need social media to provide the substance that can only really be found elsewhere and attempt to achieve this by purporting to be, think, do, believe whatever gets this job that can't actually be done done.

Artifice begets artifice when it is rewarded, no matter the low-grade standard of the reward whose value is relative to the people of that environment such that they may regard the value of the reward as lofty or significant.

Have intuited on some level(s) that insincere people respond welcomingly and rewardingly--albeit in the least consequential, most insincere fashions--to insincerity and people are far more likely to be people of insincerity than sincerity and more comfortable with insincerity and so it's a matter of preaching to a choir that's been compensated for their time and efforts, such as they are, in advance.

Is endeavoring to perform rather than be who they are.

Cannot be themselves.

Have no self to be.

Lost the ability to be real and truthful and without artifice partly as a result of getting swept up by and overwritten in their internal constitution by all of this.

or some combo.

And yet this thing is the bulk of so many people's lives and the center stage of our society.

The mores and realities of becoming and being this way then permeate the world, extending to and infiltrating the behavior and psychology of people who aren't on social media. This is the psychological lingua franca and the social coin of the realm of planet earth.