Just a brief little post on what I've been doing lately, and some thoughts.
The main change in my life has been that I've been going a lot more, and socializing more, and that's caused me to reflect on the nature of my online existence-- like most Zoomers, and really probably most adults these days, this is my primary form of social connection (as sad as that sounds).
Putting myself out there has made the online activities come across as less and less compelling and motivating-- online platforms are basically totally dominated by non-normies, which means specifically a kind of broken / mentally-ill type, in some cases a literal school shooter freak. These people are so deprived and anti-social that they only exist for the rush of spite that they get from antagonistic interactions: it provides them enough motivation not to kill themselves.
This has resulted in the kind of junkie-slop online media economy we have now, where everything is made in order to spike the addicts' increasingly hardened receptors, which are recalcitrant to activation-- notice how every subject covered (Palestine, Epstein, grooming gangs) winds up turning into a snuff film, where multiple different voyeuristic fetishes are mixed together for the online degenerates to snort up.
You can understand how this is demotivating to read or respond to.
It's also very refreshing to note that normal IRL people are the opposite of spiteful, vindictive, and warped-- not that there aren't assholes here or there, but the behavior is more open and cool compared to online-only interactions. I
think something about the nature of the Internet allows for a much more prolonged sense of hostility (I guess because there is no catharsis like there is for IRL confrontations). At this point I think that you should never communicate online with people you don't already know, and trust IRL.
The other interesting thing, which hasn't even been noticed in the discourse, is the massive shift in girls' behavior. Maybe this is more pronounced among Zoomers, and Millennials (who dominate Twitter) just don't notice it-- but basically, there has been a massive rebellion against birth control, meds, and other mood stabilizers over the past few years.
These days, and especially if you're handsome + well-dressed, your odds of being noticed and even approached by a girl are WAY HIGHER than they would have been 5-10 years ago. In fact, it's crazy how eager they are to interact with guys, talk to them, flirt, etc. It just doesn't take place in a transactional, mediated, or super-sexual way (as if you were sending them pics through some gay app), but the interest is there.
So I guess the goal going forward will be to write posts that a normal, functional, healthy, stable, non-institutionalized adult could appreciate. In terms of the false promises I have become famous for giving, one plan / idea is to start writing book reviews, inspired by this guy (ignore the GOPslop he gets paid to write, he covers some interesting / niche books). Obviously I won't be giving my formal assessment of them LOL, but I mean it in the sense of tangents / ideas which might inspire further discussion or strike readers as interesting. We'll see!