[The_Goonies1985]

I left all (anti)social-media eight years ago, and have not carried a smartphone for five years. What I've noticed is that my perceptual clarity has become like a superpower.

I can run circles around everyone in any social gathering, and life in general, because I live in reality, where they live in a simulacra.

Of course, I don't openly brag (except here) about no longer being a node on the fear-grid; no longer behaviorally-programmed by salaryman-psychologists at Facebook, Apple, Google, and the other major state-adjacent surveillance companies.

Instead, I watch society from an anthropological perspective; with a calm detachment. Listening with quiet amusement to the smart-phone-people as they decant paraphrased versions of whatever madness they were told to believe that day by their 'feeds'.

There are now two new classes in society: Delineated by those who carry smartphones, and those who remain conscious. Those who are lost in the map versus those who still see the territory.