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0:00I have been developing a very toxic
0:02relationship with this an entertainment
0:04and educational platform has absolutely
0:06no business being involved with
0:08developing technology that is being used
0:11in war. If I were to start social media
0:13now in 2026,
0:16I wouldn't do it. And this is why I am
0:18committing myself to going as offline as
0:20I possibly can by 2030.
0:27We are back from summer break. I had a
0:30good old time here in Greece. I hope you
0:32had a great time wherever you went. I
0:34hope you got a lot of vitamin D. Got a
0:36lot of vitamin C. We are back. We're
0:40starting the new season with me, you,
0:43and my complaints, which I feel like
0:45it's a great way to start. And today I
0:48am going to be complaining about a lot
0:50of things. And as you can tell from the
0:52title of this video, it's going to be
0:54interesting. It's going to be fun. But
0:56first, we are in Greece and I feel like
0:58tradition is important. And one thing
1:00that we did in Greece, every time we
1:01started school, and since this is the
1:03beginning of the school year or
1:05whatever, uh we would get blessed by a
1:08priest and it's called theos. I have no
1:11priest to bless us and I don't feel like
1:13I need his blessing, but I think a
1:16little bit of a ritual to start things
1:20on the right foot is needed. So,
1:25can we see the smoke
1:27cross? So, let's get started. I don't
1:30know about you, but I really enjoyed
1:34spending time away from my phone this
1:36summer. I have been developing a very
1:38toxic relationship with this. I feel
1:40like this relationship has been going
1:42downhill ever since the pandemic started
1:45and Tik Tok became popular and I started
1:48using Tik Tok. And ever since then, I
1:53feel like it's everything is just
1:55getting worse and worse and worse. And
1:57every time I come online, I feel a lot
2:00of feelings that I don't enjoy. And the
2:03worst part of it is that
2:06while before pre pandemic PP, I feel
2:12like I had a very creative and in
2:15control relationship with social media
2:18and with this technology.
2:20And
2:22since then, I feel like it's been
2:24consuming me more and more in a way that
2:27I really do not enjoy. And I don't think
2:29I'm the only person. I think many of you
2:32watching and all the conversations that
2:34I've had with my friends are
2:37a lot of us expressing so much
2:39frustration over things like how much we
2:44cannot stop using either Tik Tok or
2:46Instagram res. But at the same time, the
2:48problem is so much bigger than just this
2:52addiction. And it's not about virtue
2:54signaling. It's just about the things
2:56that I need to do to feel like I can
2:59sleep at night with my conscience clean.
3:02And I know that through supporting
3:05companies like Facebook, Meta,
3:07Zuckerberg or X which is owned by Elon
3:10Musk also Apple is very much involved
3:14with technology that is being used uh in
3:17unethical ways in my opinion and just
3:20there is Spotify as well. We are living
3:22in a technocracy.
3:24And in this technocracy, unfortunately,
3:27none of our technocrats are fair and
3:30just and care about us.
3:33They seem to care exclusively about
3:37profit
3:38in a way that is disgustingly antihuman.
3:42And not to mention, now with AI, things
3:44are getting even more concerning. And
3:46while before we were all concerned
3:48about, you know, environmental
3:50destruction being a massive threat for
3:52humanity, now we're like, "Oh, could AI
3:55actually just wipe us out in 10 years
3:57and none of this matters?" So, this is
4:01these are my thoughts most of the time,
4:03just spiraling deeper and deeper into
4:05madness. And I just want to do something
4:08about it. And I have this platform and I
4:11feel like if I talk about the things
4:13that are concerning me deeply and the
4:15things that are I'm not seeing change
4:18online and maybe you find something that
4:22you relate to and I'm going to be
4:24talking about solutions and I how I am
4:26basically on a mission to get myself as
4:30offline as possible by the year 2030.
4:33And by that I mean this work of mine too
4:38because
4:41I loved social media and I loved what I
4:44did and I started doing it because of
4:47that. But the social media landscape has
4:50warped and transformed into a very
4:54addictive slot machine now which if I
4:57were to start social media now in 2026
5:01I wouldn't do it. I started this more
5:04than 10 years ago in 2015
5:08and it's been 11 years. Back then in
5:122015, the landscape online was so
5:15[snorts] vastly different and so much
5:18more enjoyable and so much more of a
5:21place that you really could go and learn
5:24and connect without that added weight of
5:28addiction that is so heavily tied to
5:32these devices that we're on that we are
5:35glued to. And I'd like to think that I
5:38am better than that and more and have
5:41like more stronger will or whatever to
5:43avoid these devices, but I do not. And
5:47I've never been addicted to anything. I
5:49have dipped my toe in most sins out
5:52there and I have not been able to get
5:54addicted to anything. I don't have an
5:56addictive personality at all.
5:59But
6:02this is very different. This is
6:04fundamentally different for me and this
6:08is partially why I deleted Tik Tok I
6:11think about two or three years ago. But
6:14then I started using Instagram res.
6:18And it's not that I spend six hours
6:23scrolling. It's more of like whenever I
6:26have a moment where I need to think
6:28deeply about something, where I need to
6:31process something, where I need to be
6:34creative, my brain will immediately
6:38force me to pick up this device and
6:40distract myself instead of using my
6:43brain. And I'm finding that extremely
6:44concerning because
6:47for me, a person that doesn't have an
6:49addictive personality, and I also think
6:51I do have a lot of self-control. And so
6:54for someone like me to not be able to
6:56control myself with this, we already
6:58know kids and teenagers absolutely
7:01cannot. And we also know that there's a
7:04lot of research showing that
7:07screen use and social media use is now
7:10linked to early dementia. And I don't
7:14know about you, I that's not something
7:15that I want for myself. And I feel it.
7:17And I feel like this is where I will go
7:21if I keep being addicted to these
7:23devices. And it really is just such a
7:26concern for me that we have these
7:29magical little rectangles that the
7:31moment that you feel any struggle
7:35mentally, this thing pops up and it's
7:37like, don't worry, you can just scroll.
7:40You can just watch endless entertainment
7:44on this slot machine that is tied also
7:47to this app where all your friends are
7:52in. And this is predominantly the only
7:55way for you to reach them, for you to
7:57make plans, for you to have a social
7:59life, for you I mean for me at least to
8:02have a job. And now I am just in a place
8:07where I cannot in any way keep doing
8:11that. So a lot of things need to go. The
8:14apps need to go. The friends definitely
8:17don't need to go, but I need to find
8:20different ways to connect with my
8:22friends that are at least as close to as
8:25efficient as Instagram and Messenger
8:28are. And I'm going to give myself enough
8:32time to get there without having to
8:34stress out. And this is why I am
8:36committing myself to going as offline as
8:38I possibly can by 2030. I'm not going to
8:41go completely offline cuz that wouldn't
8:44really benefit me and and help me with
8:47my life. And especially now that I want
8:49to start a business, uh, I won't have
8:53the ability to be completely offline.
8:55But I do want to delete a few apps. At
9:00least Instagram a thousand% being one of
9:03them. Until Instagram is able to
9:05separate reals into a separate app and
9:09keep everything else as Instagram, I
9:14cannot use Instagram. I I just cannot
9:16have myself tied to something that is so
9:19addictive that stops me from being
9:21creative, from thinking deeply, from
9:22processing my emotions, that is
9:25constantly distracting me, that has this
9:28incredibly addictive slot machine
9:30feature where you're just like this
9:34and time does this or whatever the clock
9:37is. I just I can't. So, I've got my
9:41notes over here, and I'm going to go
9:43over a few of the ethical concerns that
9:47I'm personally having with all of this,
9:50uh, with our technocrats, I guess. Um, I
9:54don't even need to mention AI. I don't
9:56really use it. Let's talk about Google
9:59and Amazon. So, the platform that you're
10:02watching me on right now is probably
10:04YouTube. YouTube is owned by Google. So
10:07when it comes to Google and Amazon, they
10:09are involved in project Nimbus. So
10:11project Nimbus has developed cloud
10:14computing, AI, facial recognition and
10:17biometric data technology that they have
10:20sold to the Israeli government and
10:22military, which is great. And they're
10:24using that to uh do exactly what you
10:27think the Israeli military is doing to
10:29people in Palestine. So we are talking
10:32about basically like the worst type of
10:35technology possible. Technology being
10:37used for war and to end the lives of
10:42children. Love that. Thank you Google
10:44for that. For me it goes without saying
10:47that an entertainment and educational
10:49platform like YouTube has absolutely no
10:52business being involved with a parent
10:54company that is developing
10:57technology that is being used in war.
10:59And you know, this is the platform that
11:01I have been working on and predominantly
11:04active on for more than 10 years now.
11:06And so for me, it's very important to
11:08find a way to do it as ethically as I
11:10possibly can. And when the connections,
11:13the financial connections are so
11:15freaking dark. I want to have nothing to
11:17do with that. So, I'd like to get to a
11:19point by 2030 where I can demonetize all
11:21my videos. There are some other really
11:24popular YouTubers that are doing that. I
11:26don't have the luxury to do that at the
11:27moment, but I would like to get myself
11:29to the point where every single video
11:31that I have is demonetized. And by 2030,
11:35I would like to find a way to maybe get
11:37my videos to you in other ways outside
11:40of YouTube, but we shall see. Then we
11:42have Meta, which owns Instagram and
11:44Facebook, and they've been conducting
11:46one of the largest mass censorship
11:47operations by removing Facebook and
11:49Instagram posts uh upon the request of
11:52the Israeli government. Also, when it
11:54comes to Spotify, they ran ads for ICE.
11:57And also, the Spotify CEO invested $600
12:00million in an AI military startup, which
12:05involved drone and battlefield
12:07intelligence. So, also, Spotify is
12:10involved in investments in war. This is
12:13great. All of our technocrats love war.
12:15Obviously, all of these platforms suck
12:18for many other reasons, but I'm just
12:21predominantly talking about war because
12:23if they're involved in war, like there
12:25is there's truly nothing redeemable
12:28about them. And if they are building
12:30technology that is used in war, if they
12:32are selling technology that's being used
12:33in war, if they are investing in
12:36technology that's being used in war,
12:38it's truly the most irredeemable thing
12:40any company can do. And so whatever else
12:43they're doing that's wrong is
12:46trumped by the fact that they are
12:49supporting war. So I might be absolutely
12:52insane for saying this, but I'm not a
12:55fan of war and I do not want to
12:57participate in supporting companies that
12:59love war.
13:01Call me crazy. [laughter] But here is my
13:05plan and here is how I'm I'm personally
13:07going to try to do it. And for everyone,
13:09it's different. But I highly recommend
13:11we all try our best to
13:14distance ourselves from these
13:16technocratic platforms as much as we
13:19possibly can. And will that happen on a
13:22mass scale? No. I I do not believe like
13:25I love humanity and I have found a way
13:30to not be a misanthropist anymore and I
13:34am [snorts] optimistic about the future.
13:38However, do I believe that if I stop
13:41using platforms on social media
13:44and talk about it that somehow this is
13:47going to inspire more people to do it?
13:50No. Do I think there's going to be some
13:52mass movement of people saying we've had
13:55enough? We no longer want to support
13:58these evil corporations and these evil
14:00technocrats anymore.
14:03Again, no. We can either choose to be as
14:09crippled by our future as much as we
14:11possibly can and we can choose to have
14:14these companies have as much control
14:17over our agency and our minds and our
14:19free will and our wallets and all these
14:23things. Sure. But at the same time, I do
14:25believe that if I I can personally make
14:27a change and I can personally do things
14:30differently, then I'm going to do things
14:33differently and do things in a way that
14:35are more that is more aligned with my
14:38morals and my ethics and the way that I
14:40see the world and in a way that feels
14:42healthier at the end of the day. Because
14:44the main reason why I'm doing this is
14:46because yes, I obviously don't agree
14:48with war, but also I do not agree with
14:52getting dementia by the time I'm 50. I
14:54also like do not agree with being an
14:56addict of an app. I don't want to I I
14:59don't want that for myself. And I also
15:00believe that as a content creator that's
15:02been talking about sustainability and
15:03ethics
15:05for a decade again that it's also my job
15:09to figure out a way to do this which is
15:12the social media thing in a much more
15:15ethical and sustainable way. So this is
15:16like my little spiel about why I want to
15:21No, I'm not gonna don't want to off
15:22myself. This is Anyways, um back to the
15:25notes. Let's get into what my plans are
15:28for Instagram. So, obviously, Instagram
15:32is where all my friends are at. This is
15:35how I keep up with them. This is how I
15:37make plans with a lot of them. And this
15:40is how I also stay in touch with all the
15:42friends that I have that are not here in
15:44Athens cuz I have a lot of people across
15:47the world that I want to stay in touch
15:49with. So, just for that reason, I don't
15:52have the option to immediately go and
15:53delete Instagram. Instead, I've given
15:55myself until 2030 to get a an address
15:59and phone book and start cataloging all
16:02of my friends's phone numbers and
16:04addresses
16:05just so that I have a way to reach them
16:09down the line. On top of that, whether
16:12you are going to be deleting Instagram
16:13or not eventually,
16:16I do want to be able to have everyone's
16:18physical address. I think up until the
16:21mid 2000s,
16:24we were all doing that. We were every
16:27house had a phone and address book. I'm
16:30big on writing. I love to write. Now,
16:32this is obviously not a solution that
16:34works for everyone. I am a romantic. I
16:37wish I was exchanging letters with
16:40everyone I knew or sending postcards and
16:42receiving postcards and letters. And my
16:46friends and close people are romantics
16:50like me and do like that idea for the
16:52most part. If that's not your thing,
16:54emails are also a great thing to be able
16:58to keep in touch with people. Gmail is
17:01owned by Google and as I discussed
17:04before, not a great option. I'm
17:07personally using Gmail. I am [sighs]
17:11Google is my ball and chain at the
17:13moment, which I need to figure out how
17:16to uh separate from it. I've read I've
17:20seen online that Proton Mail is
17:22recommended as a more sustainable
17:25alternative. It's based in Switzerland,
17:28I believe, which in general, I also want
17:30to switch away from American companies.
17:33It would be awesome if Europe could
17:36eventually step up technologically and
17:39provide us with ethical alternatives to
17:42all of the really addictive and warup
17:46supporting platforms and apps that
17:49America is providing us with at the
17:50moment. But, you know, I don't have high
17:53hopes for Europe unfortunately. Europe
17:56is too busy right now becoming more far
17:58right. If Europeans truly hate
18:01foreigners so much and want to get rid
18:03of them, why not take a look at their
18:05applications, their technology that
18:08they're using, and look where that is
18:11developed and made and maybe start
18:13fixing that. Maybe let's start having
18:16more social media platforms that are
18:19based in Europe.
18:21Maybe. I don't know. Little
18:23recommendation. Also, back to Instagram.
18:26Another thing that for me keeps me from
18:28deleting Instagram is that I have an
18:30audience there. And so
18:33again, I can't delete it like that. I
18:36would like to get my audience. Yes, you.
18:38I'm talking I'm talking to you. I'm
18:40talking to you. Uh I need you to go in
18:42the description box. That is a terrible
18:44accent. Wait. I'm walking here. I'm
18:47walking. I can't tap into that accent
18:49right now, [laughter] but just open the
18:51description box and you will find my
18:54Substack link there. If you don't have a
18:56substack, make a substack. Substack. A
18:59Substack. Start using it more. I feel
19:02like that is such a more slowerpaced
19:07platform. It's not really social media,
19:10but it's way less stimulating. It's not
19:12addictive at all. You have to use your
19:14brain when you're on it. So, it's tough
19:17if you're addicted to Instagram or to
19:19Tik Tok to transition to Substack. But I
19:23am prioritizing that platform over
19:27Instagram and over YouTube because there
19:30I can publish videos, I can publish
19:33photos, I can publish essays, I can
19:35publish uh podcasts all in one place and
19:40it's a place that is not toxic for now.
19:45Who knows? And then back to the notes,
19:47the other thing that I've written down
19:49that I use Instagram for is getting
19:52news. Most of it is fake news. If you
19:54look up anything that someone is telling
19:56you on Instagram, it ends up being false
19:59information that they are just sharing
20:02uh to get views, which is super
20:05annoying. Uh and another reason to hate
20:09these hate short form video in general
20:12because it promotes
20:14lying. It promotes misinformation and it
20:18thrives on that. For me, another reason
20:20why I don't want to get my news through
20:22Instagram is recently with Nepal,
20:26I
20:28I I really don't want to open my
20:33addiction app, my cat videos and
20:37interior design inspiration app to watch
20:41people dying.
20:43I don't want that. I have enough
20:45empathy. I don't need to see people
20:47dying and suffering to develop empathy
20:49for them. I'm already feeling it. I'm
20:52good. I do not want to see any footage
20:54ever again of anyone losing their life.
20:56And I've seen way too much of that on
20:58Instagram. And I cannot
21:01fathom how messed up that type of
21:04footage is for the young people that are
21:08using these platforms that definitely
21:10shouldn't be. I [laughter] can't I'm so
21:12stressed out. I need I need some of the
21:15hibiscus tea. It literally looks like
21:18there's a spider at the bottom of it. I
21:19don't know if you can see that. So, for
21:21news, I don't want my news to move.
21:24[laughter]
21:25I've said it. I've said it. The most
21:27controversial thing in this video. I
21:29don't want my move I don't want my
21:30moves. I don't want my news to move. I
21:33don't want to see it in video. All I can
21:36handle is a photo. When it comes to like
21:40people being hurt or dead or injured or
21:43whatever, I can't even handle a photo.
21:46But I want to be uh getting my news in
21:50print. I want to read my news. I want to
21:53be able to read, process, apply critical
21:57thinking. I don't want someone being
22:00like, "You guys, the Nepal disaster was
22:03actually orchestrated by the Chinese
22:05government." No. I And I And I don't
22:07want to watch anyone yelling the news at
22:10me or like doing these dramatic jump
22:12cuts or having like disaster movie music
22:16in the background of people getting
22:20literally trampled by a mudslide. Like,
22:22I I don't want to see. I don't want I
22:24don't want any of that. Thank you. I'm
22:25good. Call me a hipster. Call me
22:27pretentious for wanting to read the
22:28news, but that's what I want to do. And
22:30you can do that obviously online. For
22:32me, the news that I care about the most
22:35are my local news and my Greece and
22:38Athens-based news. And there are there's
22:40a lot of free press that actually does
22:43that. I can just walk around my
22:44neighborhood, find free press, pick it
22:47up, and get my news that way. At the
22:50same time, I'm very much aware the news
22:52in Greece is incredibly corrupted and
22:54paid by the government. Whether you're
22:56getting your news on Instagram, whether
22:57you're getting it on Tik Tok, whether
22:58you're getting it on print media, you're
23:00still getting biased news. But then
23:01again, I have until 2030 to really build
23:04myself a collection of Substack essaists
23:09that talk about the news in a non-biased
23:11way and publications that do that also.
23:15So, I'm optimistic. This video is
23:17basically like a to-do list of
23:19everything that we can all kind of put a
23:22mental note in that we all need to
23:25slowly start doing. And at the same
23:28time, if AI truly is as awful and as
23:33destructive as a lot of people are
23:34saying it's going to be and it takes
23:36down our internet and it takes down I
23:38mean all our ways to connect with each
23:41other, we will be prepared. And so these
23:44are all just in general a really good
23:46to-do list for all of us just to be
23:49prepared because we are living in
23:51uncertain times and things are much more
23:53unpredictable these days and it's good
23:56to be safe than sorry. Moving on to all
24:00the photos that are on Instagram
24:04and with that cloud storage
24:06subscription. So thankfully I've never
24:09been paying for cloud storage. Sure.
24:12Sure. One more time. Thankfully, I have
24:13never paid for cloud storage. Why?
24:16Because I am stingy as And to me,
24:19it sounds absolutely ridiculous to
24:22subscribe to my memories. It seems
24:25absolutely insane to pay a monthly or
24:28yearly subscription to keep my memories
24:31around, especially when other options
24:34exist. So, option number one is we need
24:38to do photo albums again. So whether you
24:41want to print out your photos and just
24:43put them in an album, which is, you
24:45know, the standard way to do it, or the
24:48way that I've really loved doing it,
24:49which is using Canva to make this almost
24:53like magazine article collage of the
24:57photos that I have for uh someone I used
25:00to date, I printed out a bunch of photos
25:02that we took from some trips that we had
25:04been on, and it was such a cool gift.
25:09and that person definitely did not
25:11deserve it, but I feel like it makes a
25:14great gift for the people in your life
25:16that do deserve it. So, when you go on
25:18trips with your friends or with people
25:20that actually love you, [laughter]
25:23then you can make cool photo albums. I'm
25:25making another one at the moment for a
25:27trip that I took with my friends. So, uh
25:30TBD, I'll be sharing that on social
25:33media, I guess, before I delete it.
25:35Another very easy solution are hard
25:38drives. I've been storing all of my
25:41memories and also YouTube videos that
25:44I've made and photos etc. All of it is
25:47in hard drives for me. Uh and now I can
25:50start going through it and start
25:52printing it out in magazines. And that
25:54will take a very long time cuz I have my
25:57whole adult life basically never being
26:00printed out, only being in hard drives
26:03which is very stressful. uh cuz those
26:06hard drives are already not doing that
26:08great, [laughter]
26:09which is the downside of hard drives. A
26:11good thing to keep in mind is that if
26:12you are subscribed to cloud storage,
26:14that also consumes energy because all of
26:17your photos and memories are stored in
26:19data centers. I don't know if you've
26:21heard of those. They're not great for
26:22the environment. However,
26:25for if you have, let's say, 5 terabytes
26:28of photos and videos of your life in
26:32cloud storage, that would be about 50
26:36kilowatts an hour maximum, which would
26:39translate to $8 in America or $14 here
26:44in Europe because electricity is more
26:45expensive, which is a very small amount
26:48of electricity you being used to keep
26:51your data because I know a lot of people
26:53make it a very big deal. 50 kowatts an
26:55hour translates to using a laptop for 2
26:58to three hours every single day for a
27:00year. So it's not a tremendous amount of
27:03energy usage, but collectively it does
27:07add up and it does add up over time and
27:11the storage that you need increases also
27:15over time. So we are just adding photos
27:19and adding photos and adding videos and
27:21it's piling up. We're not sorting it.
27:24We're not deleting useless things. I
27:26mean, the amount of energy that's going
27:29to maintaining these data centers to
27:31just store, you know, the most useless
27:36photos and videos that people have
27:38because they don't want to bother to
27:39delete them is a whole other
27:41conversation. And again, all of this
27:44requires time. Most people do not have
27:47time. and the free time that we have,
27:50we're using it to scroll on Tik Tok and
27:52Instagram. So, we can add that to our
27:55to-do list of things to do instead of
27:57scrolling.
27:58Going through our photo album, starting
28:01to delete things, starting to sort
28:03things out. It will take a very long
28:05time. It's annoying. I get it. It is
28:09something that I personally do if I'm in
28:11a situation where I am like on the train
28:15or on a plane or on a boat where I don't
28:18have Wi-Fi access. I'm not going to pay
28:22for Wi-Fi. I am just going to use that
28:24time to sort through the photos on my
28:26phone, delete everything that isn't
28:28needed, and keep only the important
28:29stuff. Now, moving on to Facebook, which
28:31is also, you know, related to Instagram.
28:34They're owned by Meta. And with
28:36Facebook, I don't really know if I'll be
28:39able to delete it completely. What you
28:42can do with Facebook is you can manually
28:44remove your data and your photos. But
28:47also, there's a lot of people that I
28:49don't have on Instagram that I do have
28:50on Facebook who I also need to get their
28:53phone and address. And then there's
28:54Spotify, which I talked about before,
28:56how it supported ICE, and also
29:00war. I can't say the other word, but
29:03something a little worse than war. I use
29:07YouTube for my music and I don't listen
29:10to music outside of the house, which is
29:13not, I guess, the most normal thing
29:16these days. But here's the thing with
29:18Spotify. I accept whatever roasting
29:22comes my way through this video. Uh
29:25because I [laughter]
29:26I have a a strange relationship with
29:30music. I feel [laughter]
29:33I don't know how to talk about this in a
29:34way that makes me sound normal, but I'm
29:36just going to say it anyways. I feel
29:38like music is very powerful. It's kind
29:41of like magic. And you can listen to
29:44music and it can put you in deeper
29:47states of relaxation. It can make you
29:49emotional. It can pump you up and give
29:53you energy.
29:54And I really like that. But at the same
29:57time,
29:59I use it sparingly
30:03and I like to keep my baseline
30:06kind of I want to be able to be
30:09functional without music. So I don't
30:11want to have to listen to music when I'm
30:14at the gym in order to be able to work
30:16out. I don't want to have to listen to
30:18music in order to go for a walk. I've
30:21managed to keep myself not addicted to
30:24Spotify somehow and not a frequent user
30:27of it. So, I only have Instagram as this
30:31very annoying
30:34presence in my life that prevents me
30:36from being present. And I think that if
30:38I had a subscription to Spotify, I would
30:42use music almost in the same way that I
30:44use Instagram, which is in a way to
30:48disconnect from my thoughts, to
30:49disassociate. That's just my personal
30:54experience. I'm not saying that
30:55everyone's doing that. We've lost so
30:57much of the power of music
31:01through making it so accessible and
31:06almost disposable
31:08and mass prodduced and mass consumed.
31:12That's my pretentious take. And I know
31:14it sounds pretentious and it doesn't.
31:15It's not coming from that place. This is
31:17genuinely how I feel. This is how I feel
31:19about music and so I micro do music.
31:21[laughter]
31:23Okay, I will stop talking about this
31:25now, but yeah, I'm not subscribed to
31:28Spotify, and I don't expect anyone to
31:31really see things in the way that I do.
31:33Um, or relate to what I'm saying. Um, I
31:37am ready to get dog piled on for this
31:40[laughter] take. I am I am I've already
31:43had been. Every time I've had this
31:44conversation with people in real life,
31:46nobody likes it. Nobody likes this
31:48steak. [laughter]
31:49There's also radio and you can get it on
31:50your phone and you can listen to radio.
31:53I know there's ads. It is what it is.
31:57There's ads everywhere. Then there's
31:59money, which for me is also something
32:03that I want to take offline, which means
32:05going more analog, which means just
32:07using using regular cash way more often.
32:11There are minor fees that are always
32:12involved with using your phone or using
32:16Apple Pay to buy anything and I
32:20especially with Apple Pay do not want to
32:23support them. So cash then the final
32:27thing is YouTube which is owned by
32:30Google.
32:31Google has me by on a chokeold. It's my
32:37email. It's my job. it's my passwords or
32:41the account that is linked to so many
32:43other accounts. It is everywhere and so
32:48Google is going to take the longest to
32:51decouple myself from. And that's okay. I
32:55used a Kosia for a really long time and
32:57then I don't know what happened and I
32:58stopped. But I am using this video also
33:03as an excuse and a motivation to switch
33:06back to Eosia.
33:07And I would really hope for Eosia to
33:10become sort of like Google but the
33:14sustainable version of it. It would be
33:16great if they had an email service. So
33:18you could have an email linked to your
33:20AOSIA account and you could use that
33:23email for your subscriptions and stuff
33:26and they could they could they I wish
33:28they could just copy Google. Like can
33:29they do that? Are they allowed? Is
33:31Google just going to sue them? and
33:32they're gh what I am thinking about
33:34doing with you guys is
33:38somehow finding a way either through a
33:40mail club or something adjacent to that
33:44to be able to send you my videos either
33:47physically or some type of link that
33:51gets you to access a video without uh
33:55ads in it. I'm figuring it out, but I am
33:59thinking about doing a mail club where I
34:01send you essays every month and being
34:04able to access you directly into your
34:07home so that whenever any of this goes
34:10down,
34:12you will have me and I will have you and
34:14I'll be able to be like, "Hey, I've
34:16written an essay. I've got your address.
34:19Send." Or, "I've made a video. I've got
34:21your address. Sending the QR code." Or
34:23even sending a USB with a video. I've
34:26been thinking about it. I want to know
34:27if that's something that would interest
34:29you perhaps. So, let me know in the
34:31comments below. Uh, this was a an
34:35endless yapping session. And I hope that
34:37it's motivated you to also want to
34:39participate in this and to also go
34:41offline. I think the best thing that's
34:44going to come out of this for me
34:46personally is being able to be in
34:49contact with everyone through either
34:51postcards, letters, or some type of mail
34:54club. That would be the ideal if I never
34:57had to look at a screen again.
34:59That's not happening. But I feel like
35:02there's so many ways to do this in a way
35:04that is more sustainable and more um
35:08healthy for all of us cuz the way it is
35:12right now just doesn't feel healthy. But
35:14yeah, thank you so much for watching and
35:18very happy to be back and starting the
35:20new season and I will see you guys next
35:24week. It's happening. Regular videos are
35:26happening again. Don't forget to like
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35:53Thanks so much for watching and I'll see
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