[Pt 2/3] It’s the End of the World As We Know It
and I feel fine
As detailed in Part 1, social media, music, and video platforms have jumped the shark.
This corruption and much more must crumble for us to be truly free.
Don't panic. This is good news.
My spidey sense says November in the US of Murica is gonna be a shit show of election disputes, but by 2025 things will be so demonstrably different we’ll know we’ve finally moved past the BS terror regime that started with 9-11. How? I have no idea. Let’s hold that vision as true and act as though it is. This will make it thus.
Do take your sovereignty into your own hands. Here's how I did it:
Disconnect your nervous system from your digital addictions before they hook you even deeper. This means binge shopping, binge scrolling, and yes... binge porn'ing too. Yah, and no more numbing with weed and alcohol. Boy howdy, I didn’t want that last one to be true, but I didn’t get the eff out of the pity swamp until I took that seriously. Even mushrooms got real weird and unhelpful for me.
It's about to get REAL nasty. As social media networks die, content creators and advertisers will use all your fears against you to ensure you keep feeding them your time and attention. The messaging will get increasingly sneaky until the final phase where it’s just outright and obviously awful.
It’s a choice to be happy, and a revolutionary one at that. We can do it, yes we can. The more of us who do it, the easier it gets for everyone.
It’s almost impossible to end an addiction. It’s much easier to trade a bad habit for a better one. I think of it as putting a fifth leg under the table before you saw out the rotted one.
Make videos and write messages, but send them directly to the people who would specifically find it interesting instead of posting on social media and counting likes to validate your worth as a human.
Smile at people in your neighborhood and say "Have a good day."
Cook meals for yourself.
Wash the damn dishes while listening to music up loud.
Hang with only the people you like even when you're not high or drunk.
If you’re ready to taper off substances, make a rule that you only drink or get high when you're with kind and lovely people and not alone.
If you have no friends or work colleagues you admire, listen to audiobooks by people you admire.
Touch a real person sexually or non-sexually. (Attend a consent workshop if you need to build courage.)
Dance to something that makes you feel something.
Make art.
Rollerskate or heck, whatever makes your face do that thing where your teeth show.
…and most importantly, SToP eFfiNg jUDgiNg YerSELF.
My mantra has been “I will not self-attack. I will not self-attack. I will not self-attack.”
The madness of Pandemia hasn't ended for many of us, but I'm declaring it officially over here and now in my little corner of the world.
It’s no coincidence that at the same time, I’m canceling my participation on the parasocial parasite platforms, I'm climbing out of my social isolation. I'm going to be awkward in public until I get over the cringe factor and start loving it again.
I'll be sending out a demo of the first single next week. It's called Leaving the Fear Frequencies. Benefactors get the drop tomorrow.
Besos and ta ta,
Cris and Team Dragon
P.S. Here’s me on my first red carpet walk two weeks ago. That is a face that says “I am a tiger who has jumped through the fire. Bring ittttttttttttt.”
P.P.S.
Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies
Breathing down your neck
Team by team, reporters baffled, trump, tethered crop
Look at that low plane, fine then
… Uh oh, overflow, population, common group
But it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed
Tell me with the rapture and the reverent in the right, right
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light
Feeling pretty psyched
… It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
And I feel fine