How the tech gods turn you into a dancing puppet
Published: Sat, 08/01/20
Word around the campfire is, he has a rule on set I suspect makes perfect sense to anyone who achieves a lot, and probably rattles those who don’t — including people glued to social media all day dancing around like a puppet on strings reacting to everything, ravaging their hormones, and dampening their minds & thinking.
The rule?
I’ll let actress Anne Hathaway explain:
“Chris also doesn’t allow chairs. I worked with him twice. He doesn’t allow chairs, and his reasoning is, if you have chairs, people will sit, and if they’re sitting, they’re not working…I mean, he has these incredible movies in terms of scope and ambition and technical prowess and emotion. It always arrives at the end under schedule and under budget. I think he’s onto something with the chair thing.”
Mr. Nolan does not allow phones on set, either.
There is a lifetime of wisdom in Christopher’s rules.
And it brings me back to social media:
In my humble but accurate opinion… the fact social media is designed to turn you into a little dancing puppet for the tech gods by keeping you addicted, reacting, and constantly in “fight or flight” — while spending more time on their platforms & building a lifestyle for the suits who run them instead of spending more time on platforms you control & building a lifestyle for your family — makes it even worse than actors and crew having chairs on set, keeping them distracted, and not as productive.
Yes, I know this falls mostly on deaf ears.
Nobody really wants to hear this.
But Yours Caveman has inspired a small handful of people to leave social media. And, in some of those cases, they have replaced spending all their time on everyone else’s platforms they can’t control with spending time on platforms they can control like their own mobile app.
Enter Learnistic.
If you must have social media, at least use the kind you can control.
And that’s one of the newer features we will be including in Learnistic possibly some time this year, at which time the price will go up to those getting in after that.
To get your free test drive, go here:
https://www.EmailPlayers.com/learnistic
Ben Settle