slop capitalism

Downstream of this disruption of our traditional ways of orienting in time and space is the platforms’ destruction of social value. By competing with “going out in public,” the platforms work to destroy “public.” We see the reduction of what you might call the Overton window for being-in-the-world, so that the only things which fit within it are th... See more

Since culture now primarily exists online, attacking the social media feed as a source of information, human contact, and self-expression means going right at the jugular of civil society