Media is evil for several reasons.

THE FIRST REASON

Media is evil firstly because it weakens your brain. Consuming the product of other's minds can be wonderful, mind expanding, and informative if the media you are consuming has these qualities. However, if the media you are consuming is entertaining, short-form, mindless, and substance-less then you are adapting your mind to consume this type of content. TikTok? Evil. Instagram? Evil. Youtube shorts? Evil. Any type of content that is short form is designed for the sole purpose of keeping you entrenched in front of your screen to maximize the number of ads that can be crammed into your brain.

THE SECOND REASON

Consuming other people's media means that you are not creating your own. This is not an argument from the cant of self-centered maximization of your monetary power; au contraire, it is for the betterment of society as a whole. An entire society that consumes is doomed to fall into the hands of entities that retain the wherewithal to produce; we see this with the tech giants of Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. These companies are not evil, they are simply looking to turn a profit. However, the effect that they have on your brain _is_ evil. Forget watching other people's content, create your own. If we all made content, the limited amount of content we did consume would be better by virtue of a larger number of producers competing and creating the best possible product.

THE THIRD REASON

Consuming other peoples media is fun. There is no doubt about it. What's this? Fun is bad? No, not necessarily. However, the overwhelming, all-encompassing, smothering, choking, stifling blanket of comfortable, easy-to-take-in media is wrapped all around us like a straightjacket, threatening to make the primary focus of our life entertaining ourselves rather than making the world a better place for ourselves and others. Consuming media and entertaining ourselves results in a complacency with the way things are that obliterates all chance of producing something new and interesting that improves life in the universe. Compared to watching Family Guy, using your brain for anything difficult is going to be the cruelest form of torture imaginable - and as soon as your work is done, you will relax into a stupor of funny Instagram reels that you will later emerge from with cries and groans as you are forced to go to work next and provide for your loved ones.

IN SUMMATION

Like the humble coca leaf that went from being used for medicinal teas to being purified, processed and synthesized into the brain-melting, life destroying drug cocaine, our media have gone from the harmlessly entertaining long-form of books, plays, and artwork to being boiled down into the sneakingly addictive short form scrolling content that is inescapable as long as you have internet access. Your brain is the most powerful tool you have. Just like you shouldn't voluntarily destroy it with alcohol, don't voluntarily destroy it by succumbing to the siren song of total brain shutoff scroll sessions. Create, explore, and make the world a better place. Don't just absorb the slop churned out by the Meta Machine.