Digital despair

Digital despair is a new and sophisticated tool of class domination, where algorithms and artificial intelligence are methodically and imperceptibly used over time to spread content that fosters feelings of helplessness and resignation. Rezgar Akrawi

Over the last few days, I have deliberately deleted almost every article in my news feed. I turned off the news radio and stopped any form of scrolling. I have no idea what is going on outside of my little world.

There was too much drama and stress in my little world to cope with extra.

I have noticed the difference. I have felt the anger settle from a constant simmer to calm.

Digital despair is real. It is the current version of a Little Atrocity. (https://syntropic.world/little-atrocities-the-path-from-integrity-to-self-deception-and-bad-business/) Slow, slow, slow, micro feeds that shift mindsets and thinking. Mine. Yours. All. Hard to distinguish and sort truth from fiction.

Our minds are owned by the controlling empire. The technofacists and oligarchs. Even my 92-year-old father, a dedicated reader until he became blind a month ago, was possessed by right-wing propaganda he read religiously from cover to cover every day.

The creation of a sense of despair and powerlessness is a useful tool of supplication. Keep the people docile.

The Wizard of Oz is fiction. But we have made it real. 

Unhook, untangle. See it for what it is. 

Photo Taken August 2nd 2025, Article published December 28th 2025