Social Media as Evidence Against Buddhism

Twitter = clear evidence that people’s deeply unconscious belief that unceasingly expressing things they think/feel somehow makes (not just the things thought or felt) but themselves more real, and the information, from other Twitter users, is that yes, this is true, the things one thinks and feels are, in actuality, the only real things, and these are the only things that make one a person, a being living on this planet, and expressing these things in 140 character segments is the closest we’ll all ever come to reality.

Facebook = the idea that the self, not only not unreal, is displayable and explainable for everyone, and that every FB user indicates a self that is static and unchanging, and that this self in FB is maybe even more real the self not in FB, the self living out in the world, which might mean that our better selves are all in FB and that FB is here to show us our true and better self. 

Pinterest = the notion that craving and wanting are somehow dangerous is disproven by the joy of collectively sharing one’s wants, and that material things, even just pictures of material things, even just looking at pictures of material things actually bring happiness to everyone by allowing everyone to understand that their wants are not strange, are acceptable, and that we should find as many things to want as possible. 

Instagram = epitomized by the selfie, is yet another proof that selves exist, are displayable, and that our best selves are often inside screens.  More importantly though, Instagram, unlike FB, eliminates needless language, the baggage of FB, and by focusing only on photos, on selfies, we understand that our bodies are our self, and that these bodies will last, thankfully, in either this world or another, forever.