The Algorithm and You...

Tuesday, September 16th, 2025

If you hate Charlie Kirk, it's because social media algorithms sent you an excessive number of Miss characterizations and hate generating content that became so prevalent. You naturally assumed it was all true.

That algorithm was fueled and grown and built and created by you and something in you that desired a target for the fear and loathing in your own heart.

For years now, I've pointed out that a person's algorithm tells you a lot about who they are. People who have radicalized ideas have a radicalizing set of content being algorithmically funneled their way 24 hours a day.

Yes, because they choose it.

And, the algorithm takes the cherry juice or the apple juice of your life and boils it down into a thick syrup that should be consumed in small quantities.

This is something that could be taught in all schools and explained through public health messaging.

"Just because you are seeing a lot of something in your social media feed doesn't mean that you're seeing a natural or normal or real or accurate or authentic view of that thing in the real world."

Apples are apples: sweet, but light and juicy.

They are not apple candy in a hard, chewy ball.

If you hated or hate Charlie Kirk, I am 99.999% confident that the information you have consumed about him was manipulated to mis-characterize him in your eyes and then fed to you ad nauseum, creating a concentrated and misleading perspective of him and his beliefs.

You were duped, in other words. But, that happened because you were doable. You wanted to be duped. You craved justification for the range of emotions, spanning, hatred, and bigotry and rage and self righteousness.

You were the perfect vessel for a campaign of deceit, a willing warrior of an ideology, an insecure person seeking self-confidence, a frightened person, looking for someone to blame, a hopeless person, easily swayed, a directionless person craving a cause, or an unprepared person trying to navigate the treacherous waters of the modern social media and online community.

And ultimately, you hated a ghost. A two dimensional mannequin created by yourself and malevolent untrustworthy sources of misleading and false information about a young man who was truly beautiful and kind and deeply considering and insightful and fair and honest and hard-working and deeply researching in good person.

Your frailty and your human nature and your role in choosing where to place your attention is partly to blame, but you need to learn the lesson now that the algorithm is not a person you can be capable of trusting. The algorithm is a mathematical program that exacerbates and exaggerates and concentrates whatever ingredients you feed into it. It will show you what you want to see. It will give you what you want to find. It will replicate an exponentially, increase the appearance of whatever you are seeking to find.

Your algorithm is not producing the same results for you as it produces for me. So look at your algorithm. Look at what comes on your feed. Look at the sources being tapped into. Look at the artificial and fake and skewed perception of the world that you are creating with the algorithm and fully accept that it's not the world as seen by others.

Lastly, the world can be divided into different algorithmic categories of content that shares similar emotions. And once you tap into a category, you don't receive a small trickle of similar content, it's like a fire hose is turned on, and you will quickly be inundated.

If you make the mistake of liking three posts about cute little Boston terrier puppies 25% of your content, the following day is going to be cute little Boston terrier puppies. Likewise, if you like dark and hateful content about Charlie Kirk three times in a row, similar content will wash over your social media feed instantaneously.

We have the responsibility to know that this is how things go. This is how the algorithm works. Once you like some thing you are saying feed me more. Hey waitress, I really like that chocolate cake! Now she brings you chocolate ice cream and chocolate cheesecake and a chocolate eclair and chocolate milk and you start to forget that there's so many other things on that menu. In fact, you start to think this is the restaurant of chocolate food, but it's just an Italian restaurant that happens to have a few things with chocolate.

We must all hold ourselves responsible for the algorithm, we create and the content we crave and the world view, we choose, and whether we then go forth and become a part of the problem by grabbing whatever cheap fast food information is flung our way and instantly sharing it with everyone around us.

Garbage in, garbage out.

We are what we consume, both physically and spiritually and emotionally and psychologically and intellectually and politically.