“‘Farm some time, watch it grow,‘ that line came to me on a Monday morning in September 2024, after two weeks bedridden – and harvesting a solid twelve hours of daily screen time on my phone. Twelve hours a day in which I believed I was fully up to date: the latest news, trending memes, my friends’ daily lunches – and yet completely disconnected from the world around me.
The political climate, social media manipulation, filter bubbles, AI – these were things I needed to process. At first glance, it all seems so convenient: the library of the world in our hands, the ability to join any conversation, to be the discourse. And yet we hide behind carefully curated images, profiles on platforms, pretending to be someone we’re not… and perhaps even falling for the façades and profit-driven illusions of others.
In the end, what remains is the paradoxical truth:
Blessed are the ignorant.“