I have never seen Elon Music in real life with my own eyes. Therefore, he is not real and I do not need to obsess over anything relating to him.

I have not seen the Statue Of Liberty, or traveled to, say, Alabama. Therefore, if I have not seen it with my own eyes, it is not real and should not matter to me.

Why should I care about the manipulative garbage on social media if I have no means of seeing it for myself with my own eyes?

This is the razor to declaw it's hold over you. You don't need to worry about whether or not a video you see of a child being mauled by a pit bull was AI generated or not - if I can't see it with my own eyes and act accordingly, it isn't real and doesn't matter.

Stop caring about this vapid bullshit.

Awareness is suffering, ignorance is bliss...

And then when you're uninformed, they make you believe absurd things.

Good attempt at escaping the psyop, but you've failed.

>they make you believe absurd things.

What's stopping me from not believing them?
I do not care about politics, for example. Therefore I will not need to worry. Decades of scare porn have shown that worrying about politics is a trap made to farm human outrage. Cold War America had their nuke scareware - but no nukes.

>What's stopping me from not believing them?

You can't not believe them, when they speak to you, you can listen and think they are telling the truth or you can assume the opposite is true.

No matter where you are, you will be bombarded by narratives that regular people agree with and they will force their ideas on you

Hiya! I figured I'd throw my two cents in.

You are right in that these things may not be real and by lack of association not matter to you. This is great for you and other people to mind and enjoy their own business. It reminds people that maybe not everything matters so much :)

However, I would like to offer that just because something is not real to you, it does not invalidate its existence. Those are still very real concepts that matter to someone, and at the very least, I myself don't believe in telling others how to think and feel.

But you are right, you don't have to worry about social media garbage, as it doesn't apply to you, and who is anyone to disrupt your peace? All my words are only my thoughts engraved in letters; take them however. Have a great day! :3

also i love the use of "razor to declaw" brilliant metaphor id say

>And then when you're uninformed, they make you believe absurd things.
This makes no sense. How would 'they' make you believe absurd things if they have no channel to you?
I've had the same idea as OP for a long time. The idea is you close off all unidirectional channels of communication leading to you. Don't use social media, don't watch the news, don't turn on the radio, don't watch YouTube commentary.
After all this, I don't hold any absurd beliefs; there is no way 'they' could make me. But I do know plenty of people who believe absurd things because of media. I'm guessing you don't know many old people who watch YouTube videos about the coming endtimes? I know a few. How about people up in arms about transgenders in sport, even though they've never watched sport in their lives?

>However, I would like to offer that just because something is not real to you, it does not invalidate its existence. Those are still very real concepts that matter to someone
This is obvious, and it's pointless to bring up because that's not the issue. The point was never to 'invalidate the existence' of something, but to realize that geographically distant things have little effect on your life, and embrace that.
Palestinian children are being starved; I know this, though I have not seen it, and I cannot do anything about it. Even if I flew there to give them food, I'd be turned into an Israeli pincushion. What is the use in me knowing this in the first place? This knowledge only serves to fill me with despair and guilt. Sometimes you wonder if that's the point.
The more sinister thing is that you are presented 'facts' you have no ability to verify on your own, so you must implicitly trust the network presenting it to you. But all the networks, social media or mainstream news, have demonstrated they cannot be trusted, I have seen with my own eyes how they lie. It is no use trying to sort truth from lies, there is no meaningful way to distinguish it anymore. Unless you can dedicate all your waking hours to researching current events, there's no point listening at all.

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Just adding on an incoherent thought: Just 30-150 years ago it can be safe to say that most people weren't so latched onto sources of information all the time. People now say people in the past were more free. Back then you might have only heard it from a newspaper or radio, but that would require you to deliberately read the newspaper and listen to the radio and watch television. Working men didn't have the time or care about that kind of thing 24/7.
Social media enables a constant stream of instant information to you 24/7 and it's unavoidable even on the most professional platforms. The modern working man is forced to use it in order to get a job or to avoid being outcasted by their peers and thus they are forced to engage themselves in psychological warfare.
This feels like a really good article in the works that extends far beyond social media and technology. Applied correctly it could pretty much be the one-all medicine for waking up and abandoning the emotional pendulum that the masses are stuck getting knocked back and forth on in exchange for mental and spiritual purity.

I dunno how to reply so I'll just clarify what I meant. The point of the original post, at least in my interpretation, was kinda to invalidate the existence and significance of certain things to the poster (e.g. "it is not real and should not matter to me", "he is not real and I do not need to obsess", "Stop caring about this vapid bullshit"). I am not saying that the philosophy of "if I don't know, I don't care", because nobody can know absolutely everything, nor can they do anything with what they know. I only wanted to offer an alternative view (yk i thought this was the entire point of forums, where you can reply). It's fine if you don't want to face what's out of your control, but it doesn't mean Palestinian children are not starving. They are still living (for the time being), multicellular organisms. To them, the struggle to eat is real. To you, it matters little, because you do not feel the personal effects. You don't have to care, you just cannot say that they don't exist.

*I am not saying that the philosophy of "if I don't know, I don't care" is wrong,

how do you edit messages anymore ToT

It's a type of defense mechanism known as dissociation. Far from opting out of psychological warfare, you actually accomplish one of its goals. Getting someone else to come up with your idea or say your words is known as propaganda. People who destroy societies for profit or genocide for religious zealotry greatly benefit from you choosing that option, because by the time you can see them it will be far too late.

>It's a type of defense mechanism known as dissociation. Far from opting out of psychological warfare, you actually accomplish one of its goals.
What do you think it takes for an individual to not help to accomplish the goals of 'psychological warfare'?