Diversive curiosity is where the hunt for knowledge begins, in the desire for new information, sensations, experiences, and challenges. But it’s only a beginning. If there’s something oddly familiar about Burke’s description, that’s probably because it might be used to describe the way we often use the Internet: clicking from link to link,

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Algorithms today feel similar — we’re given little ability to choose where we’re going. We’re being fed content, post after post, pushed in directions predetermined by an amorphous representation of your interest. We get the dopamine hits, and we find ourselves entertained but are often left with a tinge of emptiness at the end of a binge. A... See more