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[warzanKeymaster 31125xp 0]

I agree with you mate.

I’m not sure I have a solution though. The whole ‘media scape’ has been lurching more and more to these quick transient kind of ‘immediate satisfaction hits’ – so your tik toks and facebooks just mop up a lot of the attention as people gravitate there for the dopamine hits.

Its brutal really. So much knowledge is now throwaway, just splashes up and is then near impossible to find again. Google hasn’t helped – is it me or are my search results these days just garbage, everything returned is basically a shopping list.

There is reddit ofcourse, but my issue there is the cross contamination of a ton of unpleasent or borderline content that is mixed through. But reddit really seems to be the only ‘forum’ that gets traction in search results.

What to do… Im pretty stumped mate, I’ve learned over the years you can’t force folk, they will ultimately gravitate to the base ‘brain chemical hits’ – dopamine.

It doesn’t matter if something make logical sense, that core brain interaction is so evolutionary strong in our species that it just takes presidence every time. (in pretty much every single one of us)

Yes I’m old, and yes even a little bit tired these days, but I’m always up for a fight back and happy to brainstorm with any and all of you on ways forward, because the current sitation while satisfying in the moment really sucks for the future.