A revisit to the subject touched upon in my article Why do you want to scare people?, where I had given thought to the sharing of material, ideas and concepts that perhaps should be kept to oneself. Mostly to do with horror and things of a frightening nature within the entertainment industry. Of which I contribute myself, by way of watching and reading things, and then taking it a step further by writing my own horror books and creepy stories. But something didn’t sit well with me about it after years of it, and after writing a number of books and short stories, I veered off into articles. Sharing real and precise speculations about my perceptions of reality to do with certain subjects. Many of them being what we would consider unsavoury subjects, and although they stem from actual facts and reality, they are still somewhat uncomfortable.

Before I share anything, I have always tended to ‘give it a once over’ in my mind, to decide if it passes the quality check, or is fit for public consumption as you might put it. Many don’t seem to care about the impact of things on others, as long as they get their clicks and likes I guess, just quite casually throwing things out there knowing they have an effect, but only really focusing on the result for them. Conveniently ignoring the other results that unfold. Action and reactions, cause and effect. And since writing that original article, I have held back, mostly, with writing fiction anymore, deciding that just because I have stories and ideas, doesn’t mean I need to share them. Thinking grisly and strange thoughts is one thing, but putting them out there for others to ‘imagine’ when maybe they wouldn’t otherwise wouldn’t have, is quite another.

And the same can be said of social media, where I have discussed its purpose and issues in Social, But Not Really, and of society generally with media, propaganda and entertainment in Are You Not Entertained? Where we allow ourselves to be saturated with it and then willingly engage with it, share it, discuss it and ultimately become part of it, without knowing really what alternative purpose it has. Being naive and accepting it on face value, as ‘just a bit of fun’, like dress-up, or pretending like actors do perhaps like in Just Pretend or a Con? In jest and for jovial reasons, so it goes undetected as being anything of note. It is not just there to entertain you though it seems, it is to keep you busy and distracted, which we choose to do as discussed in Just The Ticket. So, while we do have a choice to take part, to feed from and feed into ‘the system’, we can take a bit of responsibility for what we consume, and what we put out there. Be mindful of what you create…

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