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The other day, I applied for a content writing job. One of their “key” questions was to share my social media handles and follower count. It made me pause.
https://vanyakrishna.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/%F0%9F%8C%BEchoosing-depth-over-display
It wasn’t about my words, my ideas, or how I could contribute — it was about how many eyes I could bring.
That’s when it hit me: so much of today’s world isn’t about what you create, but how loudly you can display it.
I just realized that it’s Friday the 13th — what a fitting day for this post! 😀 [1]
While growing up, I learned some things that seem sort of out of vogue today. One such cornerstone of my learning experience was an opposition to anything that reeks of dictatorship or similar mob actions. Freedom was very much about intellectual freedom. I have written about this time and again (if you want to read more about this, check out some of the links on the homepage 😉 ).
In contrast, life today appears to me as if it were all about being in alignment with Big Brother. [2] Whether turning on the tube to watch, listen and follow the newspeak or turning to the Pope of the Internet [3] for guidance, or whatever, … it seems like everywhere modern men and women are in chains … chained to some sort of propaganda system or other that dictates their lives, right down to their thoughts. [4] The propaganda engines have been finely tuned and employ some of the most sophisticated technology available to mobsters everywhere all over the world (as we know it). [5]
The regular individual is a nobody.
In order to be a somebody, you need many millions of followers. VC money. Rapper jewels. A White House. Something with street cred.
Opinions don’t do shit. There ain’t no algorithms for ideas. Like Vinnie Barbarino used to say: “gimme clicks, gimme clicks, gimmie clicks, …”.
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It made me realize I can be insightful to others, and many can learn from the black experience.
https://theblacktakeentertainment.wordpress.com/2022/12/03/my-take-my-reflection
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I often think of the quote “nobody is perfect”, and that is true to all individuals. Even if we have imperfections, we should opt to always try our best and aim for the best version of ourselves. Be humble, kind and admit one’s mistakes and own them. Acknowledgement of one’s mistake shows integrity as a person.
https://adcollantes.wordpress.com/2022/01/10/the-choice-i-want-you
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I believe film is an essential way of shaping the publics opinion, and changing our world.
https://thereserwalsh.wordpress.com/2023/02/01/about-me-2 [previously published @ thereserwalsh.wordpress.com/2021/12/05/about-me ]
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We did also watch “The Man” by Taylor Swift, which was thoroughly entertaining though not at all subtle. And not to sound ancient (hahahaha), but subtlety is the thing really. I might have had a dictionary definition of that back in my young-woman days, but I didn’t really get how to do it.
https://doesthismakemelook.fashion.blog/2021/10/30/adult-ing
NOTE — Featured image source: https://laurendeanspencer.com (author’s “homepage”)
Keywords: business , career , jewelry design , academia , business plan , capitalism , content development , higher education , LIS , media literacy , microbusiness , technology
I’m finding that I’m in a relatively privileged position to have gone through ethical training as regards Library and Information Science — and I can use these skills in ways other than being, “a Librarian.” In addition to being able to see things from an Economic or Business perspective, I also have some clue about the impact of the very same policies on society. For instance, I find that there is very likely a desperate need right now not only for literacy in reading and writing, but also — maybe more intensely — a need for media literacy; that is, an understanding by the polity as to how organizations can manipulate them through the juxtaposition of different media: words, sound, still image, and video or moving image, not to mention the endorsement of their “friends” (i.e. the business leverage of their emotional relationships). How does someone get training in this? Media Studies? Studies of the propaganda that led up the Holocaust?
https://spectralbeads.com/2021/10/11/decisions-in-which-there-is-no-right-decision
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Now, we can just speak a command to our phones and it shows us the best options for getting to where we need to be
https://teaser.news.blog/2022/10/21/now-we-can-just-speak-a-command-to-our-phones-and-it-shows-us-the-best-options-for-getting-to-where-we-need-to-be
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Did you know that the action we make each day can affect someone we don’t know? What’s more interesting is that even that person doesn’t know they’ve been affected.
https://ashleysays325370786.wordpress.com/2021/02/11/59/