What is the point of CT anyway?
I ask myself that more often than I probably should.
Some days it feels like a broken casino with better vocabulary.
Other days it feels like the last public square where a random person can still write something honest at 2 AM and somehow reach people they would never meet in real life.
Since Ketamelon took over, the algorithm clearly does not reward the best thoughts.
It rewards velocity, outrage, tribal reflexes, pretty videos, recycled takes, fake certainty and whatever keeps people scrolling while quietly making them more stupid, more angry and more alone.
And still, people stay.
Let's be honest, most of us are definitely not getting rich from posting here or with trading.
Some of us are apparently getting paid enough for 1 coffee and emotional damage.
People stay because CT still gives you moments you cannot really get anywhere else.
A sharp reply from someone you respect. A warning before the crowd notices. A stupid joke that saves your mood for 10 minutes.
A stranger who understands exactly what you mean. A brutal market lesson. A public argument that actually teaches you something. A thread that cuts through your own ignorance and forces you to think again.
Ignorance is everywhere here, including in ourselves.
The problem is not only that other people are dumb. The more uncomfortable problem is that all of us are vulnerable to our own bubbles, our own bags, our own anger, our own little heroic narrative where we are obviously the rational ones and everyone else is captured.
CT exposes that in a very ugly way...if you ask me.
It shows how fast people confuse attention with truth, confidence with knowledge, followers with wisdom and engagement with importance. It also shows how quickly we become the thing we claim to hate when the algorithm rewards us for it.
Maybe that is the point.
CT is often terrible.
But it is honest in a dirty way.
It shows the internet without the corporate filter.
The greed, the humour, the loneliness, the intelligence, the delusion, the tribalism, the kindness, the scams, the paranoia, the real research, the cope, the rage and the occasional human moment that makes you remember there are still actual people behind the profile pictures.
Maybe the point of CT is not to win it?