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Weary

I am so very weary of it all.

The constant assault that is the bulk of the Internet in 2026, I am so weary of it.

I've had enough of the constant bombardment, the tension, the aggression and violence of it. Its like the Morgoth of hyper-capitalism took the promise of the web and twisted and tortured it and contorted it into the mockery it is today.

The rapaciousness of it all is exhausting, the prevailing culture is toxic, even in places that claim to be different, to be better, calmer, the negativity prevails. It is so much the culture, so much a reflection of our hypernormalised reality, that it is near impossible to hold at bay the absolute bombardment of noise and trackers and malicious intent dressed up as marketing, like trying to keep a poison gas out of a room. If you manage it, you've sealed yourself into a prison.

I don't want to be exposed to it any more. I want to turn the volume down way, way low and appreciate the quiet between beats. I want simpler, gentler, I want less, I want my shoulders to stop trying to move in to my ears and get back to where they should be.

I want to move out of the toxic megacity and explore some of the surrounding village communities instead; they're on the same roads, but there's no billboards or huge speakers or vast video screens. There's little noticeboards to stop at and read instead, insights and ideas like waypoints and milestones along the way. Away from the conjoined megacities of www and app there are counties like finger, gopher, gemini, land both ancient and new, and there things are person-sized, quieter, simpler.

I am so very weary. I will stop and rest in these lands for as long as I need. Perhaps I'll stay for good, put down roots, make a home. Something small and slow-paced. Person-sized.

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