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a matryoshka of possibilities
- The beauty of the rabbit hole, and the warren you create by falling down it, is how it activates your curiosity to generate new, reflective pockets of information and knowledge. And the better you become at “finding,” the more portals emerge, and the farther you get from a complete sense of having found. The state of curiosity is one of abundance: ... See more
from How to Fall Down a Rabbit Hole by Syllabus
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The more I grappled with the complexity of reality, the more I suspected that we have all been living a comforting lie, from the stories we tell about ourselves to the myths we use to explain history and social change. I began to wonder whether the history of humanity is just an endless, but futile, struggle to impose order, certainty, and rational
... See morefrom Fluke by Brian Klaas
Debbie Foster added
- Once, we made sense of the world with sweeping narratives that provided a comforting sense of mastery. Now, with those narratives shattered beyond repair by a reality too complex for us to fathom, a new kind of coping mechanism is emerging—one where we make peace with the limits of our agency rather than pretending to overcome them. The task is no ... See more
from Games of Chance – ZORA ZINE
Severin Matusek added
Imprisoned in the here and now, siloed by an ever-narrowing thresher of choices, we combine and connect experiences and create a story of ourselves, a timeline of our lives. At the same time, though, we imagine a story of our unlived lives, potentially infinite ramifications of worlds and meanings exceeding the grasp of anything but our imagination
... See morefrom The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton
Debbie Foster added
This stems from the structure of the web — it’s a tangle of links, a jumble of interconnected ideas. It fractalizes our attention, nudging us to leave fragments of our mind trapped in open tabs like a thousand tiny horcruxes — open loops feeding off our attention until they wither away, replaced by our latest distraction.
There’s a bottleneck here:
... See morefrom A Spacebar for the Web by thesolarmonk.com
sari and added
- As the realm of virtual information complexifies, it is increasingly difficult to collectively experience, let alone agree on concrete descriptions of events. The platforms we use to communicate often lack archival affordances, optimizing instead for the nonstop production of new content. So context collapses and signifiers empty their meaning. Whe... See more
from How to Read the Internet by Libby Marrs
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