Assembling A New Toolbox For Digital Sanity Part 1
I am writing this post from within the Thunderbird email client on my Linux-powered laptop. When I am finished, I will just enter my secret email address and hit the “Send” button and this will be posted on JavaNomad.com with the email subject line as the title of the post and the email text as the body of the post.
Exactly what you are reading here now.
By setting up this system to “blog via email”, I have removed the need to open a web-browser and “go online” in order to compose and publish to my website or to use a smartphone with a blogging app on it. Anyone can do this by installing WordPress for their website’s content management system then installing and activating the “Postie” plugin from within their WordPress admin panel.
This might not sound like a big deal, but using this setup allows me one way to take advantage of the power of the internet on my terms. Composing and publishing my thoughts to the world without having to deal with the temptation of an open browser window on a computer or a smartphone in my hand allows me to stay focused on the task at hand while avoiding the temptation of clicking thoughtlessly around the web. It also helps me avoid visiting the addictive and mind-altering/controlling social media sites, which sit near the top of my current “Enemies of Humanity” list. (Removing FB, Twitter and Instagram apps from my smartphone was a previous step already taken to this end.)
I am not a digital Luddite by any means. I still believe the underlying framework of the internet is currently one of the most powerful tools for assisting humanity in becoming freer and more advanced, enlightened, peaceful and loving individuals. We now have the closest thing we’ve ever had to seemingly god-like powers in our hands with the ability to access a near-immeasurable amount of knowledge and and share it with almost anyone around the globe instantaneously.
Just because a tool or service is built on top of this technology does not automatically make it “good” though – in fact, it is my belief that many of the most popular ones are quite literally “diabolical” in nature.
Despite this, I am generally positive about the underlying technology. This truly quantum jump in our technical (and probably biological) evolution happened over a very short period of time – short enough that many of us easily remember what things were like before. The relative smoothness that humanity not only accepted, adapted to and ran with a technology which would have seemed magical or miraculous just a few short decades ago signals to me that humans are designed / programmed (intelligently) at the very core of our being for such massive and fast advances. I expect this is not the last quantum jump we will see in our lifetime – if we can avoid or escape some very dangerous pitfalls that have been set for us.
Yes, some of those traps have already snared large swaths of us. The giant social media companies, funded and supported in part by shadowy deep-state organizations, created freemium platforms that billions of us signed up to and became hooked on. Somehow they were both centralized AND free – and yet we didn’t see the hook for the bait. It wasn’t until recently that large numbers realized we were caught and being reeled in – ready to be served as the catch of the day for certain globalists’ own economic, political and other anti-humanity and anti-freedom agendas.
Yet I believe it is not too late to escape. Admittedly, some of us (me!) waited too long making it harder and more painful to release ourselves from their clutches – but it is still less painful than the alternative – which is already staring us straight in our expected-to-be masked faces.
Escaping from the social media plantation and finding alternative ways to use the internet to learn, create, share and communicate is a challenging but fun and rewarding process. Choosing to go back a few years and post to a blog via email instead of sharing on FB and Twitter is just one example. Although I don’t get the instant dopamine rush of seeing how many people “liked” or “shared” my post and I can’t find out quite so quickly what everyone in my network ate for lunch – I am also no longer subject to the mind-control of these platforms’ mass-hypnosis feed algorithms, their mass censorship of ideas and banning of free speech, or their targeted collection of my personal data which they in turn use against me.
The advantages certainly outweigh the costs for me.
In a future post, I will share some more of the tools I am using to try and create a more free and fulfilling life in the middle of the current madness as I continue to “head north” on the digital underground railroad.
Until then, feel free to reach out and say hello – use the “Keep In Touch” link at the bottom of the page. If you’d like a letter from me, include your postal address.
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– Java Nomad
“You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.”
– Robert Anton Wilson