Helping others and making the world a better place doesn’t seem to count much in how everyone rates other people.

Here’s the secret to beating the game of instantaneous, ubiquitous approval-gathering:

DON’T PLAY IT.

Live by your own rules, all yours and good ones, and treat others (wait for it), how you would like to be treated (where did we hear that before?), and if they don’t, they can go jump in the lake or take a long walk off a short pier, and take their petty little approval-junkyism right along with them.

It’s called “adulthood”, and I highly recommend it, especially here in the most juvenile, bovine, approval-seeking, narcissistic, advantage-grabbing, plain old STUPID era in human history.

Yes, I saw the series, the whole thing. What I took from it, was a simple and astonishingly easy-to-implement warning:

DON’T FALL FOR ANY OF THIS CRAP.

Or did someone force you to buy that smart-phone or join farcebook or play online games or start a blog or rely on the good graces of the advertised-at anonymous public or have a mortgage or live in the godawful suburbs or have a job you hate or marry someone who doesn’t love you or be surrounded with duplicitous and hollow people all day?

The only threat from all this technology, is the idea that one can’t live without it, or without playing by its attempted code of infantile dependency on the opinions of others. Where I see the real threat, is not in the tech, but in the people who think it is life its ownself and refuse to have any real character or personality of their very own. Fortunately, plenty of people still do, and as it turns out, the black mirror, essentially, is lying about what reality is.