Goodbye Facebook Hello Stillness.

Another blog another year. 

This will be I think the 4th time I have started a blog. I rather hope it's the last. 

I recently quit Facebook. I already miss it. It had become, especially now during lockdown, a pretty important part of my day, a part of my day I looked forward to and enjoyed. 

But it had also become a contradiction, a cognitive dissonance, I could no longer contain.  I began to feel like I imagine a business man in 1930s Berlin might have felt when he rationalized joining the Nazi Party for the connections, for the network. Of course Facebook is not the Nazi Party but the quality of the rationalization feels similar to me. I know that Facebook is damaging the integrity of our liberal democracy, perhaps even intentionally with malice aforethought, but ... 

So I deleted my account and left . 

But I'd still like to be able to stay in contact with people. I'd still like to be able to articulate my angers and joys and pains and sorrows. To share laughter. To share photographs. To remember and anticipate.