we are willingly hypnotizing ourselves and losing our humanity in the process https://t.co/QN5ZMTnguC
we are willingly hypnotizing ourselves and losing our humanity in the process https://t.co/QN5ZMTnguC
In a social media–centered society, we’ve all been rendered at once cult leader and follower.
Amanda Montell • Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Authenticity simply can’t survive this environment of constant performance – we become alienated from our own actions when every moment is filtered through the question of how it will be received.
Gen Z and gen Alpha brought a raw, messy aesthetic to social media. Why does it feel as inauthentic as ever? | Eugene Healey
“It’s the same. It’s always been the same. Stop benefitting from the internet, it’s not for you to enjoy, it’s for us to use to extract money from you. Stop finding beauty and connection in the world, loneliness is more profitable and easier to control.
Stop being human. A mindless bot who makes regular purchases is all that’s really needed.”
... See more“I guess we’re at the point in history where being a person has become a liability. Better to just be a disembodied jumble of ideas.”
Hank Green • A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor: A Novel (The Carls Book 2)
obvious now that the inevitable result of every public timeline being taken over by ai slop will be a return to highly personal, small networks of highly curated content
algorithmic timelines are over now, our bodies are growing immune to them. it’s all “elite media”
In this new book, Han describes the deleterious effects of that degeneration on storytelling. Storytelling used to bind us communally over the campfire; it connected us to our pasts and helped us imagine hopeful futures. The digital screen has replaced that fire, making us individuals performing factitious versions of ourselves to unseen peers, tai... See more