*edit*: this thread cleaned up and edited:
https://wordsmith.social/overthinking-the-apocalypse/journaling-against-dracula

I have been thinking a lot about luddism lately, in part because social media addiction fits so nicely with the mental fatigue I was left with after the last bout of covid. and I have been thinking about things like:

- social media as a coping mechanism for loneliness, and ultimately for the existential question (screaming into the void et cetera)
- fragility of supply chains and electronica generally (cf. RAM/SSD shortage, Israel war oil issues)
- march of technofascism (ID checks, chat control, deanonymisation, "AI" everywhere, spyware is now normal, Anduril/Palantir merely smokescreens for an entire complicit sector, no cellphones without spyware etc.)
- trans people and immigrants being the scapegoats
- the defanging of anarchism as a movement, the incredible erasure of Rojava and Chiapas from international discourse paralleling only the erasure of anarchist Spain in throughouness
- we living in interesting times, history II: a new beginning, todo dia um novo 7×1, the surreality of fascism increasingly normalised without anybody taking on weapons
- reality fragmentation and narrative control through increasingly sophisticated tech means

and what that all adds up to me is "we should keep diaries". as in, on paper