My Relationship With Media

     Frankly, I do not have a particularly complex relationship with media. I generally try to avoid media -- I use social media sparingly, and usually just to stay updated on the news and follow the progress of the Kings. I find media to be rather toxic - it is my view that the constant bombardment of individuals with advertisement as well as subliminal messages that propagate the image of the perfect person, and the disorienting proliferation of information is not a benign development of modern society, but, rather, a malicious attack on all that deviates from global capitalism's standards of legitimacy. In my view, the advertising, body shaming, etc. paired with the position of power that media holds in society, combine to form a single social force that seeks to produce consumers that have been both materially and psychologically primed to feed into the global economy with maximum efficiency. In this sense, I find the media not to be a neutral space, but rather the newest terrain of domination for a system I believe is responsible for the worst violence of my life.

     All of this is not to download my manifesto onto readers, rather it serves as an explanation for a rarely held opinion of mine - that media does more harm than it does good. For these reasons, I tend to avoid it.