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      "body": "![Facebook - Periscope.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPdhyhDTX6jE2jdUYoqX2peS71NKWwDDjfd1wLmFjgUhS/Facebook%20-%20Periscope.jpg)I liken social media to a dance hall. You can have all the best accommodations, hire the toniest bands, and juice the place up with strobe lights and special effects...but it's still no fun if no one shows up.\n\nThat was the problem with Google+. It had everything going for it, but there wasn't any reason (at the time) for anyone to show up. It was an empty gymnasium, with a few wallflowers standing on the sidelines, no one to dance with.\n\nFacebook, on the other hand, is more like an inner-city street festival gone astray. We keep going back, because everyone's  there right? But when we get there we find we're packed shoulder-to-shoulder, the drinks are overpriced and watered down, and you can barely even hear the band because of all the crying babies and obnoxious drunks. Meanwhile, someone's always getting mugged or raped, and your best friend got ejected after Security caught him smoking weed in the Porta-Potty. In short, Facebook has become a bummer, a buzzkill, and it's just not fun any more.\n\nNot only that, but the company itself has become abusive. Drunk with their own power, and infused with hubris, they've become Too Big To Fail--at least in their own eyes. Their early success created a monetization problem which they've apparently solved at the expense of the users who made the site popular to begin with. In other words, we've been used, folks.\n\nWorst of all, they're collaborators. They've become so embedded with the state establishment that they're essentially becoming the social media wing of the government. Their propensity to control the narrative and monitor dissent should be disturbing to any freethinking individual. \n\nThey've morphed into North Korea, with Kim Dong Zuck as Dear Leader.\n\nEveryone knows this. I'm not saying anything surprising here. But people keep going back, even after being banned and deleted and harrassed relentlessly. Why? Two reasons: 1) Nobody wants to dance by themselves, and 2) All the action is on Facebook.\n\nThe first reason is a large part of why I've become a MeWe evangelist of late. It's not like they're paying me, I just want a place to get my social on without being abused. A place that will woo me but not rape me. MeWe seems like a good place to dance, I just need some partners so I'm not doing a Billy Idol.\n\nBut I get it: all the action is on Facebook. It's like AC/DC's Hell: \"all our friends are there\". But think about that for a minute: how many of those friends do you actually interact with on a regular basis? How big is your monkeysphere? What's your Dunbar Number for social media? Do you REALLY get to see everything all the really important people post, or they you? I doubt it. You can still pare down your friends list or join a small group, but understand that Facebook DOES NOT APPROVE, and will do everything they can to engineer you back into the commercially approved slipstream. They control the algorithm, which means they control the conversations. \n\nIt's also enlightening to understand the insidious methods Facebook uses to keep people addicted. Nir Eyar, author of \"Hooked\", has spelled out the steps of what he calls \"Behavioral Design\", a method to create products that use subtle psychological manipulation techniques to get us engaged and KEEP us there. Facebook was one of his principle models. They literally have us \"hooked\".\n\nWell, I know a thing or two about behavior myself (my car tag says OPERANT1), and I tend to resent being used. There are ways to counter environmental conditioning, and they're not really difficult, if you're motivated to do so. \n\nSo, if you too are tired of Facebook's creeping totalitarianism and interested in finding a better place to hang, consider these six steps I'm taking to Get The Facebook Monkey Off My Back (how's that for a Planter's Mix of metaphors?)\n\n\n1. Set up your account on MeWe, fill in the details and post a Hello post. Look for all your friends who are already there, and send them invitations. \n\n2. Turn on all your MeWe notifications, and plan to check it anyway twice a day for postings, and to post something. The well ain't gonna prime itself; action creates momentum.\n\n3. Next, go back to Facebook and post \"Follow Me To MeWe\" followed by your MeWe handle. Then invite 10 of your best friends, and tell them to invite ten of their best friends. Behold the power of exponentiation. Put the multiplier effect to work.\n\n4. Now, TURN OFF all your Facebook external notifications. Yep, you heard me. The mobile app with the little \"23\" on top....delete it or hide it. The emails telling you that your mother-in-law \"liked\" your latest Pepe meme....unsubscribe. Stop that shit cold. Instead, start checking Facebook twice a day, and even then check ONLY YOUR NOTIFICATIONS. Forgodsake don't scroll randomly, what the hell good is THAT? Just check and answer your actual friend engagements. The rest is just static.\n\n5. Start posting all of your minor conversational things on MeWe ONLY. I'm talking about FEE articles you liked or news stories you want to comment on or funny ass memes. Stop putting that stuff on Facebook so that 4900 of your 5000 friends who won't see it, won't see it. Put it where the friends who matter and will see it anyway will see it anyway: MeWe.\n\n6. Delete Facebook Messenger. It's CANCER. Use MeWe as your new **chat platform**. Think of it as Telegram with a social media page attached. Better privacy than Whats App, which is owned by Fascistbook after all. Anything's better than Facebook Messenger!\n\n7. After a couple of weeks, start preparing yourself to ditch Facebook. Download all of your uploaded data  (FB lets you do this--just go to your Settings and find the link. They will let you download a zip file. Warning: it took me 3 hours to download mine). Start deleting your personal information (phone numbers, emails, etc) as much as possible, because from what I hear Facebook becomes a stalker after you leave. Disengage from as many groups as possible. Pretend as if they are about to delete your account. Because these days who knows they actually might. WE ALL KNOW SOMEONE WHO'S BEEN ZUCC'D. But more importantly, it makes staying on Facebook less important. This gives us more freedom to act without worry of repercussion. When you're ready to leave completely, delete your mobile apps and remove the link from your browser. 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What exactly is being \"empowered\" here?\n\nThe gun control fanatics in Youth EMPOWER have been lurking, planning, and mobilizing since the implosion of the Clinton Dynasty. They've infiltrated the NEA and weaseled their way into student civic organizations, waiting patiently for the next (inevitable) school massacre for their chance to strike. Sadly, Omar Mateen and Stephen Paddock weren't students, nor did they choose to shoot up a school, so the plans had to be put on hold. But not for long, of course. Nikolas Cruz came through for them. And, before the bodies were even cold and the last bloodstains wiped up off the hall floors of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, they struck.\n\nThe appalling irony in all this is that none of these efforts designed to create and pass stricter gun control legislation have a snowball's chance in hell of actually succeeding in their stated goal. 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Another white twenty-something, this time a woman, was adamant that her companion was \"Lucifer\", and that he/she was the one responsible for \"sending all those niggers over to rape my womb.\" Both of these dialogues caused ripples of concern and hilarity in the McDonald's, and the woman smartly ejected herself before management had to intervene. \n\nPerhaps the saddest of these transients is a guy whose name I learned is Josh. Josh smells bad but never says anything, preferring to sit at the bar next to the endlessly-looping \"McDonald's TV\". I'm guessing he can recite the hour-long collection of gameshow snippets, Big Bang Theory scenelets, and McDonald's commercials by heart now (I might could myself). Josh always buys something, and I've never seen him panhandling. I have, however, seen his difficulty managing space. Josh is dealing not with imaginary friends, but imaginary barriers. 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Four of them.\n\nOne of them approached Josh and asked if he had some ID. You could see his body language change immediately. This came totally out of the blue to him. He was just eating his damn McMuffin, watching Drew Carey hand out cash prizes, and up walks a group of Men In Uniform to Interrogate Him. Who wouldn't be distraught?\n\n\"N...no\" he stuttered (and I immediately thought of Billy Bibbet from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). \"I don't have my ID.\"\n\n\"What's your name?\"\n\n\"Josh (something, I couldn't make out his last name).\"\n\n\"Well Josh, do you have a home?\"\n\n\"Yes.\" Really? I was flabbergasted again. For weeks I'd assumed Josh was homeless. But then I find out he not only drives, but has a home. Wow. \n\n\"Josh,\" the cop continued, \"do you realize you have a restraining order against you?\"\n\n\"No, no I don't....I've talked to the managers here, they're cool with me...\"\n\nThe cop continued on, using the modulated voice of an interrogator--not unlike the guy from Venus I mentioned above...and not unlike Nurse Ratched, actually--and he continued to grill Josh, who was visibly shaking and obviously distressed. \n\n\"I don't have a restraining order!\" he insisted.\n\n\"He does,\" another cop chimed in.\n\n\"My partner says you do Josh.\"\n\n\"Well I don't know anything about it. You can't do this.\"\n\n\"Yes we can Josh. I was told you have a restraining order and you've come back here anyway. Why shouldn't I take you to jail?\"\n\nNow Josh was about to lose it. \"This is illegal! 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You're fighting for group rights, which puts you in the collectivist camp.\n\nCollectivism is the antipode of individualism, the barbaric descendent of primitive tribalism, the philosophy that individuals are useless outside of their service to the collective (which is often called the Nation, the Society, the Common Good). Collectivism requires individuals be labeled, categorized, and subverted into groups, which can then be pitted against each other, a technique which makes each group easier to manipulate, and control.\n\nAll people are individuals, but all individuals are not individualists. This leaves them susceptible to manipulative ideologies which promote lofty ideals but demand subservience and submission. Once they subvert their individualism to this ideology of control, they adopt it for themselves as proper and necessary. It is neither.\n\nThere is a disturbing element in American society that accepts the belief that some people should have the right to dictate to others what to think and do and say. This element is unified in this belief even when they disagree with others. Whether they call themselves Values Voters or Social Justice Warriors, it is essentially the same. They are anti-individualist, they are anti-human. They are totalitarian.\n\nThese people are doing the bidding of their controllers, willingly conforming to the needs and dictates of the establishment. These are the teachers and preachers and cops, the \"universal soldiers\", the ground troops of compliance all authoritarian regimes--whether they call themselves \"People's Republics\" or \"Participatory Democracies\"-- need to accomplish their hegemony. To do this, they must blot out any inclination toward individuation that grates against the needs of the collective. And Individualism, the philosophy, is particularly denounced.\n\nThis is why there is the move to categorize, to label, to segment. People will subvert their identity willingly to a culture, or race, or religion, before they will to a state. And when people start to think of themselves as their race or religion, they think of themselves as constituents, and they no longer address the authorities as individuals but as members of a group that needs to beseech the state for favors, or power, or mercy. And the state is more than willing to divvy out small increments of favor to their constituents, in return for their submission. Because pitting white against black, Christian against Muslim, makes them easier to corral, easier to herd. And, if necessary, slaughter.\n\nBut we aren't all white or black. We aren't all Christians or Muslims. We aren't all straight or gay or transgender. We aren't all  members of the dominant culture, nor are we all members of any significant single minority. But we are all human beings; we are all individuals.\n\nThis is the only thing that \"unites\" us. This is the only \"we\" that works universally.\n\nThis doesn't mean \"we\" have to be alone. \"We\" rarely ever are. Humans are social beings, we enjoy and voluntarily seek out companionship and cooperation with others. This is perfectly natural, it doesn't need to be forced. The force is what is unnatural.\n\nVoluntarism is the only social structure designed by all of us, for all of us, and the only one congruent with human nature. It posits the primacy of individual choice as the fundamental foundation for civilized society. Every individual who adopts the voluntarist perspective changes their relationship to society at large. They become. They increase their sphere of freedom. They've transformed their entire worldview--and hence their world--from one of slavery and boundaries to one of freedom and limitless possibility. And if they have a libertarian streak they will share this new world view with their friends and family. And that in turn will transform their world, and worlds beyond, exponentially. \n\nFreedom of choice is the fundamental tenant of Voluntarism. I defy being labeled by outsiders not because their labels are inaccurate but because I choose to identify by my choices.  Our identity is not assigned to us by authorities based on circumstances of our birth, but by our actions, by our behavior, by what we choose to do every minute of every hour of every day. This is who we are.\n\nI am an individualist. This is my social contract. It is unilateral. It is not negotiable. ***Deal with it***.\n\nThanks for reading! Check out my homepage at Voluntarist.me. And find me on MeWe and Twitter and don’t forget to #DeleteFacebook.",
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