1. I am going to be deleting my Twitter account sometime later today, I think. I would rather not just simply disappear. It has been an interesting year and I have learned a lot, made some online acquaintances, but I have been feeling a nudge from God to walk away.
2. Why? First the app is addictive. It consumes too much of my time. Second, as I understand the medium and it’s place in the power structure, what happens here is really tangential at best. The real world is where the action is, even if smaller in scope.
3. We need to be doing and building in the real, building and strengthening community, however small. You cannot do that living your life in this online world. Third, this app pulls me away from the books I want to read and the hobbies I enjoy.
4. Fourth, I have been talking of late about the nature of propaganda and how the constantly changing images, the constant stream of stories and information, erodes our sense of self and makes us more compliant, our thoughts more easily manipulated. I am feeling this effect on me
5. Fifth, spiritually, whatever I gain from Twitter, it is not the true source. I find that it slowly drains me away, sucks away my life and vitality. I am feeling that passage from Jeremiah.
6. Jeremiah 2:11-19
“My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.”
“My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.”
7. I am undecided about what to do with my Substack. I may keep it. I may export the pieces and keep them. At the moment, I am leaning to pulling them down just to make a clean break, but that can be decided later as Substack does not demand as much.
8. A thank you to all my mutuals. It had been a learning experience, but this the best and right path.
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