I know of people over the years who were on Facebook for example and everything people posted annoyed them. Yet they stayed on Facebook. I know people who hate trap houses and meth heads but they are always in trap houses smoking meth. Some people have the same issue with any number of platforms.

I think what I see in common is how closed systems keep people trapped in certain behaviours. There are only a certain number of ways you can use Facebook for example or use a trap house. Think of any default in your favourite socials and it is limited. Closed systems are perfect for predictability and keeping people coming back for more disappointments.

You will get warm and fuzzy feelings here and there but it’s an interesting set up to say the least. If for example you have jungle law (that’s the standard in most cases anyway) you will be guaranteed a selfish fight for the scarce resources type of behaviours. You see it in groups of birds for example. I have seen some staunch Rainbow Lorikeets body slamming their rivals.

I remember decades ago I wrote about what would happen if you dropped one million cash into Bilga crescent. You will have a riot rather than a community coming together. I hope I am wrong. The more desperate you can keep people the more likely they will compete to the bitter end but what’s a million dollars worth when it’s to support addictions?

Obviously you can’t stereotype everyone but any form you fill out for almost anything will have parameters that are not open ended with a million variables. You need at some point to create limits within limits. How do you allow people to leave the closed system? Normally it is an individual choice within parameters set by factors mostly out of your control.

Yet you can choose to not participate but that isn’t an easy way out. It can be the hard way out. Also you risk losing being part of the social order wherever you happen to be immersed. I know of people who have managed to stay in a good place in some challenging company. Yet some time alone to reflect and being stealth can bring some perspective. It is not easy to find your own place in the milieu.