Finished A Paper...
...and I wanna talk about it!
This will be a well-adjusted post from me, I promise. I did have an energy drink though and, while I can fully fall asleep after drinking them because I have some sort of brain disease (ADHD), it still makes me a little jittery. It's weird, but I'm sure my fellow ADHD havers know exactly what I mean. I think technology should be transparent again, I want to see those sexy, sexy wires and circuit boards.
Anyway, as I mentioned in a previous blog post, I'm writing a paper about pagans and the internet. I think I want to summarize parts of it for my website because I really, really think pagans need to reevaluate how we use the internet. It's starting to feel more like a fandom than a real, valid expression of spirituality. I'm not concerned with outsiders taking us seriously, that's not the issue, if I gave a shit about that I just would not be a pagan. Of course, it sucks when people treat you like you're stupid for it — I have had people straight up say to my face that they were surprised I was a pagan/wasn't an atheist because I "seem so rational" and it's like. Humans are not rational, but also like. I'm not a highly emotional person incapable of rationality either. But why would I alter my beliefs just because other people don't understand them/think they're cringe? If that were the case, I'd also stop being an anarcho-communist. I'd attempt to stop being nonbinary and bisexual as well.
I think, if I were to summarize parts of my paper, I'd also have to add in some of the more specific issues I have that were hard to justify including, which were mostly things isolated to specific platforms. Also, like. We desperately need to talk about misinformation.