Elaine Meyer
@elainermeyer
Elaine Meyer
The pressure to perform and live up to the expectations of others is not a new social phenomenon — nor a bad one. **^^But the way it manifests at the internet’s global scale increases its intensity tenfold — especially for young people. The goal is no longer to simply live up to the high expectations of your parents and peers — online you could be... See more
Molly Mielke • callings
#creativity
“Freedom,” according to Jean-Paul Sartre, “is what you do with what’s been done to you.” This is true at the individual level — say, someone climbing their way out of a traumatic childhood into full adulthood — as well as at the collective level — think, for example, of the generations-long liberation struggle of Black people in America.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
i like this - because it doesn’t put the burden of doing something that may be practically impossible on us but rather what’s possible within one’s circumstances
A lot of what’s happening with the Millennial generation and social media is connected to the changes in our relationships with people as we age and enter new phases of life. Social media seems to magnify these challenges and perhaps make them hurt more. Ie if I lose touch with an old friend but see them commenting so effusively on another friend’s
... See moreIt is a terrible spectacle when irrationalism becomes popular. One feels that disaster is imminent, a disaster such as the one-sided overvaluation of reason could never bring about. The overvaluation of reason can be comical in its optimistic pedantry and can be made to look ridiculous by the deeper powers of life. But it does not evoke
... See moreSocial media acts as an emotional coordination layer, increasing the amplitude and frequency of culture. Jealousy, resentment, and fomo are more viral and powerful than ever, particularly when everyone is on their computer all day post-lockdown.
John Luttig • Finance as culture
The Age of Social Media Is Ending - The Atlantic, November 2022
Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the
... See moreViktor E Frankl • Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
If we consider recent findings on the prevalence of online hate speech, cyber crime and social media addiction, we could be forgiven for wondering, does the internet bring out the worst in people?
Maybe that’s not what we should be asking.
Computer-mediated communication facilitates alternative power relations and social conventions, normalising new... See more
Maybe that’s not what we should be asking.
Computer-mediated communication facilitates alternative power relations and social conventions, normalising new... See more
Nathalie Béchet • The emotional era:Are technologies changing how we feel?
On the one side, Havel wrote, was the “sterile puritanism” of the regime and, on the other, “unknown young people who wanted no more than … to play the music they enjoyed.” Dissidence arose from heeding “life, in its essence,” which “moves toward plurality, diversity, independent self-constitution, and self-organization.”