Looking in the Wrong Direction

The computer, the internet, and social media, are incredible human achievements.

We've conquered one of the most basic elements, guided them in such a controlled way that we can communicate and share ideas across the world in an instant.

Yet, throughout these wires, we still carry the same flaws of the mind: we are attracted to pleasure, angered by pain, and deluded by falsehood. You must have seen this for yourself. Algorithms tends to favour shock value without any real merit. Contents tend to elicit anger and division, to put labels on groups of people and hate them, ignoring the fact that we all have the same basic needs. The market has shown that this model is very lucrative, despite the harm.

Digital or real, the mind is the mind. Even an amazing feat like conquering electrons can not cure the mind's sickness, but it only spreads the sickness through the wires.

We can try to control the entire the universe, but the answer would never be reached for as long as we're looking in the wrong direction. We need to look -- not out -- but in.