Rescuing Your Soul in the Algorithmic Age

The text consists of excerpts from an article titled "How to Rescue Your Soul in 2025," written by Greg Twemlow, which advocates for a complete and decisive break from AI-powered social media platforms. Twemlow recounts his personal journey of deleting all social media to regain deep focus and creative capacity, arguing that these platforms operate on a false economy of distraction by extracting users' agency and attention. He characterises the experience of leaving as an "act of design" and a "reconstitution of the soul," where the initial silence gives way to unmediated presence and genuine thought, which he terms the "quiet revolution." Ultimately, the author frames the choice to leave not as anti-technology, but as a pro-human stance focused on reclaiming consciousness and sustaining attention in the algorithmic age. Read the article.About the Author - Greg Twemlow writes and teaches at the intersection of technology, education, and human judgment. He works with educators and businesses to make AI explainable and assessable in classrooms and boardrooms — to ensure AI users show their process and own their decisions. His cognition protocol, the Context & Critique Rule™, is built on a three-step process: Evidence → Cognition → Discernment — a bridge from what’s scattered to what’s chosen. Context & Critique → Accountable AI™. © 2025 Greg Twemlow. “Context & Critique → Accountable AI” and “Context & Critique Rule” are unregistered trademarks (™).