#100hardtruths

#55, choose to be digitally productive rather than reactive

In 5 #hardtruths and 2 new pledges @#50 I wrote:

“Producing internet content, rather than simply consuming or sharing it, feels productive; in this time of desolation and destruction, good feelings and actions have real use and value.”

As much as I believe this—I said it—I’d like to use this format, another blog post, to develop some of the contradictions that underwrite my cliché, starting with some of the founding illogics of writing and reading in various internet formats. This is to say, one of the deepest paradoxes for me in this, and every online effort, is how the tight grip of digital architectures, capitalism, and other infrastructural truths that seed these platforms also produce norms for digital cultural production and consumption that both enliven and deaden all that we do here, and all that it might mean or matter:Now look at that! Without planing to, it appears I have just authored my own version of my 2nd #100hardtruths at halftime: Choose to know, name, and share your own internet truths. I feel good about that circularity for now.

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To see a poetic response to this hardtruth:

choose to be digitally productive rather than reactive

Hear Orr Menirom read the poetic response to this hardtruth:

Orr Menirom reads "Choose to be Digitally Productive Rather than Reactive"
 

See Alex Juhasz's respond in Podcast form to hardtruth #55:

We Need Gentle Truths for Now responds to hardtruth #55

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