Wednesday, June 03, 2026

of the internet

1) i’ve realized, at some point, that i don’t really have anything i’d like to share online. with where i am now, i’m comfortable with keeping a lot of things to myself.

2) i believe that posting is a kind of mindrot, one that makes you feel like you have to constantly connected with other people and show yourself to the world.

3) that being said, most things online could have probably done well without them being ever posted. even when i think i have something to say, it really is for the better to not to have said it.

4) the mindrot of posting online in some sense also reduce you to the lowest denominator to everybody else. in this way i think even the people who try to pass off as intellectual on the internet, actually come off as any other midwits online. this is where, for example on twitter, someone who would otherwise seem pretty esoteric and cool become completely insufferable once they had been given the chance to interact with just about anybody who retweets or comments.

5) this all is compounded with this insatiable need to have a take all the time on all the things that are happening right now, and so to post online really just feels like being forced to navigate through all these different opinions, people, and discourse.