Twitter literally drives people insane

All this is proof that we’re really living in a simulation.

In theory, those of us who choose to patronize the hellscape that is Twitter know the algorithm exists.

We know we’re in an artificially created ecosystem, and only aware of a small sliver of the content on the overall platform.

And yet, when you’re on the site amidst all the noise, you forget that.

You start to think that the things that you see are the things that everyone sees. Questioning that would very literally mean questioning the reality you see before your very eyes. It’s like telling someone there is another world that is separate and distinct from what they are living, and that is the REAL world, not their contrived reality.

You’re very literally telling them what they’re seeing on the walls of the cave isn’t reality. But they can’t see anything else, it would be impossible to conceive of a reality in which that’s true.

Twitter is the cave. The algorithm is the projections on the wall - what you see and what shapes your reality. It’s creating your reality for you…but it’s not real. It’s just projections.

I learned that all too well this week when my personal Twitter account was permanently banned on the site. Long story.

But what happpened when they banned it is that other Twitter accounts I have (shhhhhhh) disconnected from the algorithm my personal account was driving…and it has completely changed my experience on Twitter.

All of a sudden, everyone was happy.

No one was fighting.

It was nice.

As I scrolled through the timeline, I started to remember why I studied psychology in the first place, why I wrote my first book about mindfulness, why I have the beliefs I do.

This was the first time I’ve felt good on Twitter in over a year and a half, maybe even two years.

It was a completely different reality. A world where I found people who think like I do, not the roving band of lunatics who had been populating my timeline incessantly.

I literally did not remember that this existed on this site.

I think I remember experiencing it before I got shot into the political space, but it all seems so long ago now.

I cannot explain just what a giant mindfuck this is.

I got vaulted out of an extraordinarily toxic reality, one that I had literally started to convince myself was inescapable on that site….and I landed in a world of rainbows and unicorns and sugar and spice and everything nice.

At first, I was constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop with each scroll through my new timeline.

It didn’t drop.

The minute my political account disconnected, every single bit of unbearable toxicity that I had been experiencing on that platform vanished.

24 hours later I feel so much better.

I’m starting to feel human again.

I knew that political tweeter was constricting but I don’t think I realized just how bad it really was.

I feel like my soul can breathe again.

I look at some of the things that got me “destroyed” on political twitter….and see them said on other parts of twitter over and over and over again and NO ONE CARES.

It’s fucking NORMAL.

I turned around and saw outside the cave, and it was so much more beautiful than the projections on the wall had been.

(Yes, I understand that this is an algorithm too and it’s just feeding different content. But it’s proof there is still good in the world.)

I’m pretty sure they’re going to have to overturn my suspension at some point, but I’ll tell you what…I will NEVER use Twitter the same way again after experiencing this.

If I have to use that personal account at all, I would completely quarantine my it off from everything else - I do not want that account associated with other accounts because I know it will just pollute everything.

I really think that Twitter is driving people insane.

It is literally creating reality depending on who you interact with.

But you can easily change that reality just by interacting with different people.

Your entire world could get changed in an instant just by disconnecting from the bullshit.

But people start to believe there IS no world outside of the bullshit, so they cannot conceive of a world without the bullshit existing.

And if they can’t conceive of that world existing, there’s no reason to change the people they are interacting with because it would just be more of the same.

So they sit there, day after day, month after month, year after year, interacting with the most toxic people in the world. They believe that’s the only reality that exists. And then they adapt to it. They get angry and vile and don’t even realize it. And, because they don’t really know that things have changed (it happened slowly, over time, too slowly to notice), they don’t realize that THEY are the ones who are angry and vile and they project that onto everyone else who offends them as a way to deflect their own faults. And, in doing so, they are more likely to act in angry and vile ways, which creates more angry and vile people around them, and so on and so forth.

It’s a reality that self perpetuates.

The only cure is to disconnect.

But when people are in it, they don’t see a reason to disconnect because it’s all the same.

I think those of us who have truly red pilled probably understand what it means to disconnect because we’ve already had to do it once. Maybe a lot of people just THINK they’re red-pilled, but really aren’t, because they still can’t look outside of their self-created reality and see things for as they truly are.

Twitter is the cave. You have to make the choice to leave and see the world for what it really is.