There is a sustained effort on part of the young to build communities with silent book reading clubs, painting dates, knitting circles and I think they will succeed in dismantling disinformation and control platforms without bartering in very precious things to humanity in exchange, like cognition.

This is a generational gap right here. My generation doesn't use online as a social tool. With all of this, my original post remains about the ills of relying on online and what it is doing to us. There is no balance, and we are being used as tools for disinformation, and fragmentation.

the "fraternities" and "sororities" and the alums. Buying into the very same order or striving to attain it is probably not the way forward in creating an equitable world but then some of us just need step-holds, perches, and not hammers.

And funnily enough, you will find these networks converging at ivy league colleges from where its leader stock is forged. The same as in UK. College alumnus, and academic certificates go much further, and that's where the world order will first have to be examined. The degrees...

soldier stock and a deep network of entrenched "society" families. This is why you dismantle power structures and create a system based on merit. The world suffers its politics and presidents, it is a pity and a suffering. The idea of America funnily prevails. +

Think I hear that from older people. They like the internet for the same very reason. I get that offline is becoming rarer. Also know that the youngest generation is eschewing online in favour of finding activities offline so it takes them away from online so much since they were born to it.

proximity and frequency. Sure you can join a lot of activities and have a great evening but that is not community or shared lives. And that imo is what is missing. Making a date with a friend, just shooting the breeze or doing chores/ errands together. Organised meets prob can't give you that ease.

Meetups are not always connections. Allow me to explain.

You briefly meeting, chatting but it does not grow and is fleeting, at times. But mainly people who sustain us see us often, hang out and make an effort to be there, don't just come in and out of our lives. Loneliness is dispelled by +

For you, I completely get it and understand where you are coming from. I had a recent conversation about loneliness with a friend, and this what we have here cannot replace connection in the real world. But as long as we are here, it's easy, needs little effort but it does not sustain us.

Selecting the information we share, questioning how much we share, and how to share is basic training for a journalist.

Since we all have journalistic powers and tools, it's a basic thing we need to learn about the responsibility to an audience. We need to care for another person's time.

also wrote, 'The Distracted Mind', who has written several pieces on what he calls a cognition crisis. Our ancient brain was not built to break down so much information. We are coping badly. We need to protect our fragmented minds now. Be selective. Be mindful.

www.resilience.org/stories/2018...

Think we need to make stuff for ourselves, our own joy, and try practicing not putting it out. This is my controversial opinion about what plagues humans right now.

Ppl need to make other stuff. We don't need more social media apps, or apps.

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feel flimsy, like a hobby

Context for non-Indians: An Indian billionaire's heir has a private animal facility where he is acquiring and transporting animals from the wild, which is illegal in India. He posits it as a sanctuary but the fact is that he is being allowed to keep wild species captive.

Yes, a bit low on energy and time. But better placed this year, I think. Got some fragrant flowering creepers (juhi and one more), a mega size bamboo, betel leaf and bougainvilleas. Very standard stuff. They didn't have the shankapushpi I went for lol...