Recently I had been going on Twitter a lot instinctively when I was bored. I guess I liked the interactions but tbh it’s so bad. Left Twitter has 3 kinds of people: (1) Acts like they are the embodiment of Marxism, nobody else knows anything and nobody else reads according to them. (2) Doesn’t care about theory or material conditions, just looking for a controversial side to join and loves posting about Russia and Jackson Hinkle/Haz. (3) Wreckers (on purpose or not makes little difference) who want to shut down any and all acts of popular resistance because “nothing ever happens”. “What are these campus protests even doing for the people in Palestine?” They say while ignoring Yemeni and Lebanese rallies with posters addressing students to continue their protests. And I would add the folks trying to become a “character” or something or like the voice of Left Twitter, but usually they fall into of the previous 3 categories (feel free to add any that you think I missed). And that’s just the Left. At LEAST they have decent takes to start with that they can ruin slowly over time. Then you get to the libs who have all been scratched. Then you push further right and you get people with usernames I can’t even say here and yet they aren’t banned from Twitter. Not to mention all the incels putting Ancient Rome on a pedestal when they would probably be slaves or merchants at best. I tried to quit Twitter a week ago and it was tough at first, but now I wanna make it like 3 weeks. If I’m still not missing Twitter I’ll prob just keep it for when friends and family send me posts from it but I probably won’t scroll thru.
This isn’t confined to Twitter but yeah, maybe the character limit make it worse.
Left Reddit is really shit right now. It has its golden years 2-4 years ago. Now it’s just podcasts.
I think I’m not the right demographic for insta or tiktok.
I like TikTok bc I haven’t had a good attention span since 2019. I also just check Reddit posts every now and then but never post. Occasionally I comment but I usually confine my leftist views to my bookshelf rather than trying to act like the King of Communism on Twitter like a lot do. It’s exhausting
Get it back? Attention is like any other muscle, you have to train it if you lost use of it. Start reading books. If you feel the urge to check your phone and it’s distracting, check your phone quickly then get back to the book. Just keep at it. Don’t let the capitalists win the battle for your mind.
Wow that’s pretty cool, I never knew that but it makes sense. I can definitely use a better attention to detail, thanks for letting me know, I’ll try to force myself a bit more to focus, I appreciate it Comrade!