Happy Saturday to you.
Welcome to another occasional musing from The Partisan. On today’s episode, we touch briefly on my experience at Twitter.
It was fun while it lasted. Read on for additional detail, if you like.
I joined up the day Musk’s purchase was final, spent my $8 for Twitter Blue, and sat back to watch the show. Of course, many of you are well familiar with the twists and turns since, so I won’t bore you with rehashing those details. I’ll simply offer two key observations.
First, it felt like the old internet, if only for a while. This may say more about me than Twitter or Musk, but the excitement of seeing new ideas and voices I’d never had before was refreshing. The sense that, yes, you could speak freely among whomever you chose. Like the good old days, talking with people you never would’ve met otherwise in your life.
The Wild West, just replace gun fights with trolling. A happy trade, in my mind.
But like any frontier, we bring our bullshit with us. Musk banned a slew of left leaning accounts and with dismay I watched many on the right quickly descend into raucous schadenfreude. Not entirely unexpected, but a sight to behold regardless.
Then I saw it, from a well known right leaning voice: “Live by the sword, die by the sword.”
My conscience’s response, gods bless it, was clear: time to go.
You see, reader, I’d been falling down the rabbit hole. The false right/left culture war was propagating anew with me. This was the opposite of what I wanted. The opposite of what I needed. The opposite of what was right.
The opposite of free and open discourse.
So I took my Twitter account out back, hit it in the back of the head with a shovel, and fed it into the wood chipper. Auf Wiedersehen, bluebird.
My encouragement to you is the same. Stay away. Stay yourself. Remain in the wilderness, away from the madness of the online cities, so that at least you can retain your soul.
Until next time, friends.
Did you see PBS Frontline's documentary on Musk's Twitter takeover? https://youtu.be/d6z4H_geX5A?feature=shared
Thanks lots of similarity in thinking, agreed best move is not to play on Twitter or with homo-musk
https://bilbobitch.substack.com/p/chatgpt-one-ring-to-rule-them-all