Step 1, make a special club and invite everyone to join.
Step 2, ensure everyone uses the club as a primary means of staying connected.
Step 3, promote some people and give them special privileges for "good behavior." Give them a blue badge with a checkmark or something so they stand out.
Step 4, push a them/us mentality and start excommunicating people who aren't expressing "good behavior."
Step 5, convince all those with "good behavior" badges that everyone who is excommunicated are savages and dehumanize them at every point.
Step 6, don't let Elon Musk buy the cult.
Social Media is a cult, with cult mentality. You never needed it to be connected with your family or friends. If you think you need their apparatus to do that then you've simply bought into their advertising bandwagon.
"If you want to talk to your friends and family, you have to join up and follow our rules."
Most importantly, you know it's a cult when members are not allowed to talk with people who are being excluded. It's even more obvious when you aren't allowed to leave without consequences, i.e. being excommunicated yourself.
Social Media performs these roles perfectly. It's technological achievements are merely a pretense for the cult mentality, where those in the club are convinced they are exemplary humans and anyone the club has deemed unworthy are dehumanized.
The scariest part of it all?
You've already known this all along... You just didn't want to admit it was allowed to get this bad...
Sleepy, i saw that the decoding blog on Telegram giving you a hat tip. Do you go on Telegram?
I used Telegram on my old computer, but didn't like the format.
To answer you directly, no, I'm not in communications there... but I have a reason.
I had planned to join his telegram and spout my nonsense there, but I think me being separate is for the best. My decodes come from a much different starting point than him. I don't want to sour his methods, and I don't want his methods to sour mine.
Why do this? Because if we both use different jumping points but come to the same conclusion, then it's far more likely we've hit paydirt on the actual meaning of the Comms.
I'm gonna stick to here for right now as my primary source of Comms discernment. It's better this way, I think.
Okay, I'm just telling you, they admire your work!
It's been a while since I've done a Thinking in Symbols.
I guess I'll dust off the thread and get back to it. Got any suggestions from over there? Any head scratchers they still can't nail down?
right now there's a lot about Twitter and Ligma Johnson. That might be a little beneath you. I'll scroll back.