Veteran twitter users: do people go through predictable growth phases as they use Twitter? Like an baby phase of friendly/replies only, to a naive adolescent phase of posting something that ‘matters’, to a cynical teenage phase of ‘nvm this is all bullshit’ shitposting, etc?
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I use it as a kind of sounding board to throw off and cast away whatever strange thoughts, concepts I have. I still find it highly strange being able to network through the aether, or even just get replies from great and excellent people. The trick is to just post and move on.
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If I ever looked back at what I posted I’d probably realize how embarrassing it all sounds. Twitter apparently kind of decouples spoken/written word, ego/self. When you know you have the ability to reach across space and time, across all cultures, it can be hard to keep true.
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Right, I imagine there's great potential for this decoupling to have deleterious effects or to help you grow, depending on how grounded you are as an individual.
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It may really depend on the content of one’s own psyche, shadow, ego, and views of the self as whole embedded in the world as a whole itself, as akin to concentric rings of a tree interacting with other organisms in the world wide forest
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It’s abway to view it, but a forest or jungle view of psyche can actually help quite a bit when individuating. The brain’s connectome, the internet, mycelial mats, the whole cosmic web, perhaps one can view the whole psychic landscape itself as a great tree with many branches.
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Then ideas become like animals on the tree, as Philemon mentioned to Jung!
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