Getting sick and tired of the New Dark Ages everywhere I turn.

[daredtowork]

91. I read somewhere recently that people are less likely to say what they think online

Instead they are more likely to express what they think everyone else is saying, thus in the process of trying to "fit in", they add to the sense there is a uniformity of opinion. Meanwhile marginal voices become invisible and dissenting voices get swamped.

The Internet is a realm of self-censorship, easily dominated by waves of social puritanism as people surveille each other for who belongs, who is "savvy", and who is "out".

I'm sure I'll regret all I've posted here in recent weeks and may have to go back and delete a lot of my posts. But I'm largely home-bound again, too stressed and sick to do anything productive, and this has somehow become the thing I do to keep myself distracted until things either magically work out or they don't.