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Many values of the early years of the internet, including openness, creativity, and connection, are deeply appealing now.
New_ Public • 💾 Why we’re nostalgic for the early web
Even if you avoid the internet completely—my partner does: he thought #tbt meant “truth be told” for ages—you still live in the world that this internet has created, a world in which selfhood has become capitalism’s last natural resource,
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Such virtues are in dwindling supply in America. Two thirds of all our first marriages end in divorce. The war between children and parents has never been uglier (since it is now concealed, rather than public as it was in the '60's). We think AOL and the local mall are communities. We think that Disney, the corporation, is a story-teller. And, to t... See more