two book recommendations
that may have an impact on how you spend your time.
Mark Zuckerberg is an evil motherfucker.
If not, he’s vapid, insecure and insencere.
What’s worse?
His company and the evil motherfuckers who work for and with him are using you.
They use your data to influence the world in really ugly ways
In Careless People by Sarah Wynn Williams, readers are granted a front row seat by the kind of cavalier irresponsible behaviour that fueled growth at all costs.
After reading this book I can honestly say that the people who deliver your cat photos, your likes, your memes, your garbage instagramp psychology and endorphins are fucking evil monsters. They’ve created social poision. They know what they’re doing is deadly and damaging.
What’s worse? They don’t care at all.
Any posturing around ‘changing the world’ is just that - posturing and virtue signaling.
The people in charge of facebook and meta make the current administration in the white house appear saintly.
So read this book and tell me that as a moral human you believe that participating in this social contagion is ethical in any way.
And if that’s not enough?
Read Ten Arguements for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier. In this book Lanier argues for the mental, moral and spiritual reasons to do this.
These books are life changing.
And as a Canadian who is angry because of the trade war, this seems like a great way to strike back at the worst of the pricks who are upending the world.
Read these books.
Facebook is pure evil. How they treat people, the lies they tell and the disinformation they spread are all outrageous attacks on our democracies.
Why?
Well, there you’ll learn how little these people care about anything other than increasing their own reach and influence.
Don’t participate.
Drop out.
Connect with humans in person
No one really gives a shit about your dog. They just ‘like’ the photo to make you feel better about yourself.
Call them and have a coffee instead.
Love the people who love you.
Fuck the fucking fuckers.
Buy Canadian eh?
And stop the spread of this social contagion.
Let’s band together and ban Meta from Canada.