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Social Media
Whether traditional media or the current ones Social Media, people remain people and we all sit in our respective communication bubbles. Some people keep trying to break out of it out of curiosity or other reasons, but sooner or later they find themselves trapped in a bubble again; They discover that the people there are perhaps not the same, but the same, with whom they communicate.
Only a few people manage to stay in open communication spaces, which also adapt to us as humans and sooner or later become bubbles. That's why it didn't help that I separated myself from the all too picture-newspaper-like social media and stayed with the more "serious" media. Twitter
There are certainly other attempts to maintain the ideas and principles of social media, but these will certainly soon follow their predecessors. And so social media as a whole will probably reach its niche status much sooner than I expected and slowly but surely disappear from most people's environment. I cannot foresee whether the already countless metaverses will one day replace social media; After a short trip there, I decided to return more to traditional media.
At the same time, I will continue to be a blogger and maintain this blog. Admittedly, I'm creating my own bubble, but it's open to everyone. And if most of us also had our own bubbles and we could easily and easily link them together, we would have something like the Fediverse that has been advertised for a long time - I think we would be back at the beginning of the Internet and this time we could do it They also fulfill their original purpose much better.
Until then, I'll read more newspapers and magazines again, keep my hands off the tweets, tweets and other microblog posts, read other blogs and continue to write here on my own blog.
Handicraft
In order to get a little different thoughts, away from general meetings, making lists and Hertenstein discussions, I did a little work on my blog and was able to incorporate a completely new feature. It wasn't online for two days and probably wasn't even noticed. In the meantime I had a quick chat with Detlef Stern and incidentally received a comment that was probably not aimed at my new feature, but was quite fitting.
In short, the new feature is now history again and I can devote more time to promoting “my” next events. The short break helped to remind me that offers to talk and meet are really just offers. You can carry the horse to the well, but it has to drink on its own.
And so I can only continue to promote these events to my circle of readers, acquaintances and friends, which are all very interesting and also very useful for our democracy. Knowing full well that I have no chance against wine villages or travel offers to the Ballermann, I still hope until the end that there are still people here who appreciate simple but necessary events.
Whoever reads these lines now can flyer linked here in his circles and would be happy to distribute this with a recommendation. Democracy lives solely from participation and the many small local hobbyists who make it more tangible for their fellow citizens.
Understanding
Vince Ebert recently let us know the following on Linkedin. By the time I welcomed his contribution, more than 1 others had already done so before me.
“It is not primarily incompetent politicians who have led this country into the crisis. It is the unwillingness of many Germans to take responsibility for their own way of life. For decades we have been voting for parties that promise us the most absurd all-round carefree packages. Like little children, we trust again and again that some cardboard noses in Berlin will know what's good for us.
Vince Ebert, LinkedIn (10.9.2023)
The real cause of the crisis lies in our self-inflicted immaturity.”
This fact should not be unknown to my readers, and so I am pleased that others have also come to this conclusion completely independently of me.
