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I noticed I don't post on here half as much as the I do centralised algo apps. I couldn't figure out why.

And now I know why.. I pick my phone up, doom scroll, then 20/30 minutes later I'll put my phone down. Within about 30 seconds the centralised algo app will buzz me with a notification to say "You might like this from Karen"

So my stupid monkey brain is intrigued. Picks the phone up again (like it's a banana) and I'm not even interested in what Karen is doing. I notice 'Tony' has a new role at work and click on his page with my monkey paw. Then suddenly an hour has gone by. I notice an article, I'll read that. It was rubbish (most of the time) - I'm frustrated.

But keep going back.

And I've not even thought about Nostr once, even though I think I know it's value - it represents what i think i represent - freedom, self sovereignty, Bitcoin etc.

I'll sometimes even flick through the other centralised algo apps before I put my phone down and not once go through my Nostr feed, even though I love it.

The other apps are like crack (i imagine). But the crack is not even good. And I keep chasing the cheap dopamine hits from them. Like a social media junkie.

I've quit so many things before, like smoking and drinking. Toxic women. Shitcoins. Social Media is one thing I truly struggle with.

So I'm going to wein myself off it - one day at a time. I read somewhere that it takes 3 weeks to form a new habbit.

Or 21 days.

So here it goes #21daysOfNostr

Posting everyday. 🫡🧡

Sato🇦🇷🍄⚽🙏🐉 1y ago

I'm going to write here a vision I had two weeks ago in ayahuasca ceremony:

"I had become almost a monkey. Brute, ignorant and dumb. I was in my home but always with my phone in my hands. I was dark skinned goblinesque and my wife was the same.

my children were around, normal as they are, not changed at all.

But we were hideous.

We were all day long playing with our phones in these social media networks. filling ourselves with anxiety and information. Fullfiling tasks and clicking nonstop. Feeling the rewards and red hearts of dopamine pursuit. Like gambling and gambling in a casino like game

Our children were playing around as usual and sometimes they had needs, but we got mad at them. And explained to them in a very rough manner that we were doing that for them. And that someday sometime we were going to be famous and succesful because we would win the game.

And we yelled at them to leave us alone and don't bother.

And we became more ignorant and dumb.

In a burst of fury I grabbed my little son by the shoulders to ask him to stop it, to calm down.

And when I saw him. He wasn't there. He was like a dead thing.

He was just a bunch of code. Just a bunch of Zuckenbergian simbols and icons.

He was covered in that and not alive. I looked around and saw all my house and all reality was covered in those symbols as neo sees the green code of the matrix but it was filled with the social media algorythms and little pictures and icons.

And my son was dead and inert behind that layer of perception.

And I woke up

Be very careful because the game can take posession of our perception. And then we measure infinite eternal and miraculous life through the values and measures of nonhuman things.

And we lose our minds and we get more and more dumb and hypnotized. Thinking one day in the future we will meet fortune. Not knowing fortune is all around and inside us.

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