Chasing the Follows - pt.1

DAY 15:

At the risk of showing my age and the creaking grind of my own cogs as they try to navigate the socials with any meaningful effect or consistency, I’d like to highlight how our need for likes and followers on social platforms is just an extension of what has been propagated by business and lifestyle societies for years. The need for validation has always been around, like an invisible friend or enemy depending on which way the 'like' goes.

Individuals of my generation have been brought up on a false prophecy of validation that has caused us to chase the ideology that we have to prove that our ideas will translate into successful economic production or something equally quantifiable. Many of us have been following a rule of thumb that blatantly contradicts some of the great historical philosophers of our time; Aristotle, Sir Isaac Newton, David Hume, who all recognised that every cause has an effect. In this example the cause is our belief - for some men, like myself this can be directly related to a belief in ourselves. The effect is the impact our beliefs have on the world around us; our work-based community, friends, clients, family…(tbc)