Caveat emptier: This post was drafted with help from an AI assistant (Perplexity)— but ideated and edited extensively by the human, Bill Acton
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the false god of “going viral,”
the golden calf of “followers,”
the herd that scrolls and calls it life.
Ask yourself, when you reach for the screen:
Is this strengthening me,
or weakening me?
Do I click from hunger for truth,
or from the small addiction to distraction and outrage?
Let your will shape your digital world,
not your digital world
shape your will.
Do not speak in the anonymous mob’s voice.
Dare to own your words,
or do not speak.
Have the courage to stand alone
against lies, cruelty,
and the cheap contempt that passes for wit.
Do not steal in the shadows—
not money, not ideas, not reputation.
The one who hides behind a fake name
slowly becomes fake, himself.
Strive to become the kind of person
who could look back one day
on every post, every comment,
and not have to ask . . .
“How much the bigger, the greater,
I shall never be?"
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