Sometimes the "recommended for you" bits that scroll up in the margins of YouTube or certain social media sites can be a total waste of time... and sometimes they can be gold nuggets.
Regardless of which holds true, they are invariably distractions that keep me from doing something more significant with my life!
One of the things I definitely do notice — and ponder about — is the sheer number of "the world is ending!" pieces of content the various algorithms seem to think I would benefit from seeing.
Frankly, I'm tired of the world ending, and all the doom-and-gloom.
It's not that I think we live in some utopic perfect world, but sometimes it truly amazes me the extent to which some people in this world are so deeply invested in everything going to hell in a handbasket.
I'd like to think that we all act according to our motivations, which leaves me considering — with a certain sense of dis-ease — what the motivations of those who keep telling us to prepare for the end of the world might be.
If the world truly ends, what do they stand to gain from it?
If you sincerely believe we are all going to be roasted to death by a giant solar flare... what is even the point of sharing such information? So we can know ahead of time when we are going to become extremely crispy bacon?
I'm not quite following the logic...
Sometimes I wonder whether there's a certain kind of narcissism attached to end-of-worlders. As in, they don't actually care that the world is ending — and they with it — as long as they get their 30 minutes of fame for being right that we're all going to die.
And then we all die.
Maybe it's not relevant that we're all dead.
The world has been "ending" for a really long time. Doomsday prophets have been predicting the end, almost for as long as they could stand and shout their message, in the center of the village.
All these years later, the "village" has become the Internet and hundreds of end-of-times dates have come and passed. And we're still here.
Even as we sit here in our little Hive, we're busy (well, MANY of us) predicting the end of the financial world as we know it, but remarkably that world seems remarkably unwilling to just die and go away.
Perhaps because one of the "annoying" traits of our species is our resilience and rather remarkable talent for pivoting when something unexpected happens.
Perhaps I am a little more skeptical than most... I am primarily just hoping that crypto actually will stay around and not end up as "something that was very trendy in the '20s" and then quietly went the way of 8-track tapes and video rental stores.
Similarly, I am skeptical about the end of the world. Endings tend to be rather slow, on the planet. Mostly.
And I'm OK with that!
Thanks for reading and have a great Friday!
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Created at 2023-06-09 00:31 PST
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