Undoing Individualism: Learning from Elizabeth Oldfield
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Undoing Individualism: Learning from Elizabeth Oldfield
It’s been three years of me posting online about things I’m reading and listening to and wow there have been SO MANY standout articles that have changed the way I think and see the world (and myself).
Thank god for smart people who can articulate themselves so brilliantly in writing.
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instagram.comAs a dutiful member of a fairly soft generation of hyperconnected internet guinea pigs, I've had a fairly up and down history with the assorted feelings of malaise.
The primary modern manifestation is what I’ve previously labeled waldenponding — a fearful retreat from the technologically mediated modes of rich connection that would enable such maximal collectivization. The fetish object of the waldenponder is the individual brain doing “deep” work, with minimal collectivization, and maximal egoism.
Substack • Graph Minds
Building a second brain is a useful strategy for coping with complexity. At the same time, it is fundamentally single-player, and most of the interesting things we do, we do together. Can we find ways to think and make meaning together over the internet?
For various reasons, our generation has an extremely limited tolerance for discomfort. I think social media has a lot to do with such intolerance— we have the option to disengage at any point— but I also think an atheistic upbringing might also play a role. Though organized religion as a whole breeds a whole host of problems, there is a
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