Insert requisite DFW from ... 1996:

Or, I don’t know about you, I’m gonna have to leave the planet. ‘Cause the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not

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The modern smartphone, laden with the corporate ecosystem pulsing underneath its screen, robs us of this feeling, conspires to keep us from “true” fullness. The swiping, the news cycles, the screaming, the idiocy — if anything destroys a muse, it’s this. If anything keeps you locked into a fetid loop of looking, looking, and looking once more at... See more

The insidiousness of how quickly social media immolates the creative impulse, shocks. Does it get you to “create” things? Sure, but within the bland confines of what the algorithm thinks you should create, what the algorithm “knows” will drive engagement. The mechanisms driving social media are “corrupt,” (in that their goals are not the goals of... See more