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The Cuckoo Clock

Friday, March 1, 2024, 

I start and end my day, like most of us, scrolling through my lovely little phone and looking at ideas for my hobbies of gardening, food, etc.  Naturally, I can't help but get drawn to my delicious little social media accounts to see what's-what and who's-who. 

Many of my yoga reflections focus around the poison of social media.  I have to just add one more post to the pile here because, within moments of being on any social media platform, your phone (which tracks and remembers everything you do), begins to show you things that you like......but it also shows you things that you may not like (I.E. if you're politically leaning one way, your phone will show you things you agree with, and it will also show you things that you don't agree with; things that will enrage you). 

I, like anyone else, at times, takes the bait......I bite the hook.......I'm caught......

I couldn't even tell you what the specific social media video clip was about but, in the commentary, it's a din of arguing and braying donkeys who are writing tomes to each other....insulting.....arguing.......agreeing-with......saying "actually, it's this", and then countering with, "actually, no, it's this", and continuing the back/forth with each other until until one side eventually stops replying.

I put my phone down, or scroll away, and feel just dismal about it all.  "Golly", I say to myself, "that was crazy how vicious the back/forth go between those two perfect strangers".  I go off to whatever area of the world-wide-web that doesn't bait me (Pinterest is one of the few remaining safe-havens in my opinion), but I still feel the negative side-effects of reading the social-media fight.  

It makes you feel like you're in a madhouse....an insane asylum.....it makes you feel like you live in a cuckoo clock.

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