4 A.M. TIN FOIL ENERGY
The older I get the more I seem to straddle the line between figuring out reality and falling down internet rabbit-holes lined with tin foil.
I wouldn’t be the first one writing about how the current internet age is full of abhorrent and weird communities that from the outside perspective have no place in what I would call a normal functioning society - considering there even is one left.
I don’t want to sound completely cynical about what has happened with our beloved internet but from what I gather, everybody I know is either very gloomy or has used up their tin foil for the remaining year..
Why did this happen?
The social media algorithms incrementally push us into some weird places. All of us, I mean. I just fear that we are pushed at convergent angles towards the mainstream. A mainstream full of:
giving up on bursting any kind of bubble/breaking any ceiling
black & white thinking
social real life awkwardness due to only growing up on devices
jumping to conclusions
I mean… are there any ceilings left to burst? they seem to have burned with all the conflicts happening around the world, right?
I just fear we are reaching a new level of conformity in our bubbles and small friend groups that reminds me of my parent’s generation (boomers). Like a man that tells himself: I have almost nothing on my name, I should be happy I have some form of accommodation and I will spend my remaining years keeping a job and being entertained online.
The big problem I see is how we get to be entertained.
Who decides how we get entertained? Is it really just a decision that we make or are there more forces involved? Who are these forces?
Slowly but surely I then reach the end to my tin foil roll. Honestly, I really like saving up and sometimes I really don’t know why I get into these loopholes but I do.
Then where are the other ones straddling this thin line between being grounded in reality or falling in a aluminium hole? And..
…how can we keep balance during these big crises happening one after the other?
Currently, the good old ‘get outside and touch some grass’ principle really works for me, but I am interested in what you found to be useful in these dire times? For this article, I will be opening up the comment section for all subscribers so don’t be shy and let me know what you think!
I’ll leave you with an ambiental song that helped me through a lot of crises and sounds like touching grass to me:
Getting outside and touching some grass are my key coping mechanisms these days... One perk of the climate crisis is the abnormally good spring weather we've been having in Western Europe, so there's at least that.
I also use some other "less healthy" mood boosters but those are not really a solution but more like a flimsy patch covering an everpresent wound. They calm the inflammation but fail to provide real healing.