Stop Playing A Losing Hand: Social Media

stock here, it’s ZH but worth a look. Consider what it means to be a “keyboard warrior” and what is the opportunity cost.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/stop-playing-losers-game

Mark Jeftovic / BombThrower “Stop Playing The Loser’s Game” piece (posted under Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge). That one mixes cultural critique, personal anecdote, and theory. Let me pull out three strongest points (clear, actionable takeaways) and three most interesting points or theories (big-picture or provocative ideas):

✅ Three Strongest Points

Arguing on social media is opportunity cost
He drives home that spending hours in Facebook battles is a net loss — you could have been building assets, nurturing family, or compounding skills instead. That framing makes the “loser’s game” very tangible.

You can’t persuade people locked into ideological echo chambers
Even if you “win” an argument, you rarely change entrenched minds — and you waste scarce attention and energy on people who don’t matter in your actual life.

The best move is not to play
Echoing the WarGames movie line, he argues the only winning strategy is disengagement: stop feeding energy into unwinnable, toxic dynamics.

💡 Three Most Interesting Points / Theories

The cognitive bifurcation
Jeftovic revives his “Great Bifurcation” idea, but pivots from wealth inequality to cognition: humanity is splitting into groups defined by their ability (or inability) to handle non-linear, high-abstraction thinking in a fast-changing world.

Connecting the dots metaphor
Using general semantics, he illustrates how identical facts can be assembled into very different narratives (consensus version, “crisis actor” theory, or “Reichstag Fire” false flag). The theory isn’t about which one is “true,” but how perception is shaped by our chosen connections.

Acceleration and “Future Shock”
He ties the stress and derangement seen online to tachyosis — hyper-acceleration of change. People who can’t cognitively adapt to this pace fall into outrage and psychosis, while those who can adapt leverage the environment for growth.

📌 In essence: the “strongest” part is practical (don’t waste life on low-value fights), while the “interesting” part is more philosophical: society’s split into cognitive castes, shaped by how we connect facts in a nonlinear age.

Would you like me to also map out how these six points could be applied in your own work and online presence — e.g., as a framework for deciding when to engage, when to create, and when to disengage?