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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
The internet is also in large part inextricable from life’s pleasures: our friends, our families, our communities, our pursuits of happiness, and—sometimes, if we’re lucky—our work. In part out of a desire to preserve what’s worthwhile from the decay that surrounds it, I’ve been thinking about five intersecting problems: first, how the internet is
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I’m curious about the way it’s impacting our inner monologues. The constant self-analysis, the picking-apart, the internal work . In collusion with capitalism and social media and the digital panopticon, seeing ourselves through a therapized lens means regarding the self as the ultimate project. It’s easy to forget there are other ways to live.
#180: Against Self-Analysis
The Death of Meaning
The idea that Big Tech might create platforms supportive of thoughtful human interaction and critical thought is a utopian daydream. Dependent on reifying isolation and polarization, most platforms favor capturing attention, locking users into vapid scrolling or ‘liking,’ transforming the human being into a commodity that consu... See more
The idea that Big Tech might create platforms supportive of thoughtful human interaction and critical thought is a utopian daydream. Dependent on reifying isolation and polarization, most platforms favor capturing attention, locking users into vapid scrolling or ‘liking,’ transforming the human being into a commodity that consu... See more
DEV Palinode
The ideal woman looks beautiful, happy, carefree, and perfectly competent. Is she really? To look any particular way and to actually be that way are two separate concepts, and striving to look carefree and happy can interfere with your ability to feel so. The internet codifies this problem, makes it inescapable; in recent years, pop culture has sta
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We have generated billions of dollars for social media platforms through our desire—and then through a subsequent, escalating economic and cultural requirement—to replicate for the internet who we know, who we think we are, who we want to be.