We will all look back at this period of Reels and TikToks as a collective low point in self-expression. I don’t know who’s worse, the people that write the algorithms that guide all content to use the same songs and have the same look and feel, or the people that blindly go along with it in a shameless attempt to garnish eyeballs. Hopefully, everyone will look back at partaking in making edits of their life to a Drake song or talking into a Rode mic about their day with the same level of embarrassment as rat tails or an ill be gotten tattoo that’s been long since lasered off.
I spent 60 days this late summer and fall hiking around the mountains with my bow and rifle looking for game. Largely away from cell service, engaging in activity that humans have for hundreds of thousands of years, and life just seemed to make more sense. I wrote about my complex relationship with hunting and observations of an adult-onset hunter on my Substack, a place where I still feel people are making stuff in a spirit they will be proud of in 10 years.
As someone with similar thoughts, this caption sounds like a privileged old man talking about the youth😂. You aint gotta flow with how the majority chooses to express themselves, but criticizing it and then insinuating your view as better and have most of the commenters back you is wildly hypocritical.
Focusing on what you enjoy is 1 thing, but glorifying it as “better” is egotistical. Hope you get more time in nature to reflect.
But actually substack is still another social media behemoth bleeding people dry for endless content. It’s just words4likes instead of eye candy. Everyone pretends to be serious but they’re still begging for love like every other titflasher and willywaver on the internet.
Been quietly observing you for years. As an -ahem- “elder” mom, this kinda reeks of New Year, New me/ Holier than thou hypocrisy. Glad you’re enjoying nature. Keep doing what works for you. Same to anyone else that might be listening. There isn’t one path. We’re each here to find our own way- eventually. Bonne Fête! 🤍
This post just found me after re watching your truck camper tour video on YouTube (big fan of the bumper stickers by the way). This is well said and eloquently left here to resonate. I’ve just subscribed to your Substack. See you out there.
