The avalanche of information

Frankly, sometimes, I don't know where to start when writing. Likewise, when I'm looking for something worth reading.

Maybe it happens to you, as it does to me: when I temporarily stop checking my social media feed.

You feel a kind of oppression when you see dozens or hundreds of posts marked as pending to read!

You even feel bad because you don't have enough time to fulfill the unspoken call to attend to the product of the effort made by your favorite authors.

Respect for the followers

On the other side of the street, if you are an author with enough followers to compromise your limits, you feel similar before the comments, eager for answers.

Most who write with passion and are successful will sooner or later feel the burden of responsibility to the audience: Especially those who never sought to be successful.

Although, to be honest, I am one of those who think that attending to a single subscriber or follower has the same importance as having millions of souls waiting for your content.

Some are obsessed with reaching many subscribers because it allows them to monetize their content shared. And I don't blame them for that. In the end, if they make writing, drawing, photography, and music, to name a few, a means to make a living: who has the right to criticize them for that?

Fake News: an age-old problem

The problem I see today is the one Platon pointed out a long time ago: crowds are not always right.

In that sense, it shakes from band to band the neurons in my grizzled head.

I think of the avalanche of information disrupting people's clarity. When you barely understand one piece of news, another comes along and shifts your attention, leaving you adrift in the media ocean: between truths and falsehoods.

Undoubtedly, readers and writers need to put our heads in order and avoid getting stranded in an ocean just a few centimeters deep.

Of course, jumping into a seemingly harmless puddle can also hide the danger of falling into a bottomless one.

You ask my opinion: I'd be in a big bind.

Who has the absolute truth?

Of course, no one in this world.

Even the saner ones could be crazier than goats if suddenly, the floor on which they support their understanding of the world were to collapse.

It is not for nothing that fake news is in vogue. And for the record, this is not a fad, i.e., cyclical in nature: it comes and goes as it pleases.

Reality is fragile and sustains the narrative of those who write and rewrite history at convenience.

FINAL THOUGHT

So, we have no choice but to manage the situation, trying not to go crazy in the attempt. 

In this sense, do not believe everything you are told, but do not become an unshakable skeptic either. 

Enjoy reading, but be wise and respectful of what you read. Remember, we are all in permanent change. What yesterday you defended to the hilt may now be loathed if you find fault or lies. 

A wise man once said, "To err is human and to rectify is wise." 

Finally, put your thoughts in order, and meditate as much as you can before speaking and acting so that you will not regret it in the future when retracing your steps. 

An original article by @Jnavedan

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