Listening to the film Ex Machina and decided to correct something I kept trying to correct before: how my door to my consciousness functions.

You see this text on your screen? It is on your screen, right?

So it goes from your screen into your eyes (or ears, or whatever you use for these words to enter your mind), so the medium is a door to an inside, and I am in the same boat as you, right?

I see, and I mostly read things. And tell you what? Most things you get to read, they make you crazy. Not books, no, but what bunches of people do online. Something about attention, something about journalism, something else about economies of things.

At least, they distract me. And when they distract me from whatever it is I am doing, they end up on your screen, too. Distracting you.

Imagine a closed door with me, a closed entrance: a firewall somewhere on this route, between what distracts me or makes me crazy, and what ends up in front of your mind, then, possibly, inside your mind.

The correction lies in the following: to not use one of the key features of social media at all and ever again.

That is, to share someone else’s­ content on your own page or account. Because that turns my stomach after a while.

See, I want to make this whole thing work out for me, but if you come here, and you see a reblog of film gifs, another reblog about a detail of a painting by a painter, and another of some sort of activism, you get chaos on your screen.

And that chaos then becomes what Code and Canvas is about.

And that chaos is then in me. And then I present it to you. So, for the sake of clarity, as a cure for ambiguity, I am deleting all of the reblogs, reposts and what have you.

Because I’d rather have that door closed shut than to have unwanted and unwelcome visitors, who then end up at your place as well.

I want to be my own firewall. And ideally, I end up being yours as well.

Fingers crossed. This needs to stick, for the sake of clarity, sanity.

Source: My after‑hours blog on Tumblr Code & Canvas