Information, knowledge and propaganda

 There's a side-effect to social media and technology I didn't even realize was happening until this election. 

All the information being chosen by the computer to be put directly in front of our eyeballs is giving us the illusion that everything we ever need or want will be delivered directly there (to our eyeballs). 

I was doing social media for a friend for the last few months as she ran in a local election. We desperately made content, sometimes 2-3 videos, reels, carousels a day trying to further our reach organically. I read somewhere that we need to see something 8 to 12 time before we register it as a real thing that exists. The guy that started paid advertising 6 months earlier wound up winning the election. I wonder how much he spent on it. The guy who has spent the last 4 years forcefeeding his good deeds into neighbourhood facebook groups came in second. 

The anger with which people take to the comments. WHERE ARE ALL THE POLITICIANS, NOT A SINGLE ONE HAS KNOCKED ON MY DOOR (expecting someone to just walk into your peripheral vision without you having to leave your couch is a special kind of ridiculous). NO ONE TALKS ABOUT TRAFFIC SAFETY IN THIS CITY (as I post the 3rd feature we collaborated on about traffic safety, pedestrian deaths, and provincial funding cuts affecting both). THERE IS NO AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THIS CITY, SOMEONE NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING (but they refuse to simply go to the city of Calgary website and look at the 48 page Home is Here strategy that outlines the next 6 years of plans, and 89 reccomendations made by experts to help fix this crisis step by step).

Stop expecting the world to deliver everything directly to your eyeballs, and maybe stop for a moment and question who is delivering what you are currently looking at, and what are their motives for doing so.