Writer David Foster Wallace on education, “The most important thing you learn in university isn’t just to think, but to choose what to think about.”
Social media companies spend millions on their engineers and researching how to capture and control our attention. They construct algorithms designed to spike our brain chemicals promoting good feelings to keep us scrolling endlessly. In that way, they can sell our attention to advertisers and promoters of false information continually raking in more and more money.
We get to choose. We can wake up and consider alternatives. We can choose to focus on ancient truths of living and the spirit. We can choose forgiveness, joy, generosity, peace, love.
Don’t be like the bad guy in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade of whom the last crusaders drolly comments, “He chose poorly.”
Choose wisely. Wake up!
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