New Week

New Day, new chances?
You don’t have to wait a whole year for new opportunities to make a change. No, changing the world doesn’t happen overnight; it’s often a longer process and happens almost without you noticing. In hindsight, of course, you realise what caused that major change; often it was precisely those little things, salespeople’s tricks that you, like many others, were enthusiastic about, such as new technologies, and then we don’t give it a second thought. You want to fit in and not be left behind. Falling behind is bad, isn’t it? It’s a bit like claiming that the internet is just as important as having a roof over your head and food to eat. I don’t agree with that; having a roof over my head and food to eat – and, of course, drink – is far more important to me than the internet. The response I got yesterday was that without the internet, you don’t belong and you’re living under a rock. I don’t agree with that either. The same would be said if you didn’t watch television, listen to the radio or read the newspaper – something I haven’t done for years, and yet I’m perfectly well informed. What you do need is some social contact, but on the other hand: what does it matter if you’re not up to date with everything? In any case, it provides a sort of peace of mind when this isn’t the case. You can continue to live in your own bubble and make your own little world safe and secure, something you can no longer say of the average government, let alone of what is currently happening in the world.
We’re heading into a new week, perhaps with problems on steemit.com, perhaps many problems in daily life, from the search for food to how to pay the bills, a new week of loneliness for many and the lack of social contact – real contact, not those fake connections on social media that are usually of no use to you at all.
Perhaps the new week is a good time to reflect on just how much we personally contribute to the disclosure of all that personal information, how many companies have access to your bank account and passwords. How many companies there are that know exactly what you spend your hard-earned money on.
How often have you been scammed by dodgy salespeople, adverts, lotteries, or by friends and family? The latter, in particular, turn out to be the number one culprits when it comes to abuse.
Today is the first day of the new week. See how long you can manage without that rhythm of AI and social media, and how you’ll fill all those hours that slip by unnoticed.
In a world without electricity for everyone, without the internet for everyone – and certainly for minors – you’ll need to have contacts and use your own common sense. It seems to me a good time to start practising this now.

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