Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

by Jaron Lanier

The ability of humans to enjoy our modern luxuries, such as a diminution of deadly epidemics, while even temporarily rejecting the benefits of hard-won truths is a testament to how far we’ve come as a technological species. Some of us can briefly get away with assuming that people will be healthy without vaccinations, as if health were the natural state of affairs.

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What social media did at that time, and what it always does, is create illusions: that you can improve society by wishes alone; that the sanest people will be favored in cutting contests; and that somehow material well-being will just take care of itself.