Considering how hard ordinary life has become for so many people, it’s probably no coincidence that much of our daily entertainment diet has adopted a vocabulary about survival. Sometimes we’re checking out how a group of weekend vacationers are going to survive the local axe murderer. Sometimes we’re just chillin’ with a team of government assassins rationalizing dirty deeds while struggling to figure out why their home life is so fraught. In other words, hard days have become good times.
Read MoreMY SOCIAL MEDIA DISAFFECTION
For people who try to live their lives in creative spaces, the trivialization imposed by a steady diet of social media has the effect of dissolving yet one more support in the foundations that enable sustained focus. That’s effectively like allowing thieves inside our mental castles in broad daylight: who can tell the thieves from the masses of other roving thoughts crowding the main hall of our consciousness?
Read MoreYOUR INSTRUCTIONS: RATE, REVIEW, SHARE
Some things simply don’t rate very well in the ten minutes after then pop into existence. But in a world seemingly powered by social media uber alles we seem to regard all qualitative assessments only in relation to the positive metrics defined by the title of this blog.