building a more beautiful internet

To paraphrase David Graeber: “The ultimate, hidden truth of the internet is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”

I first wrote about Breach in 2020, and again in my book. It’s the idea that the internet has become our externalised collective unconscious, capturing and then amplifying a swirling ocean of our projections, hopes, fantasies, and violent urges. Some of these become archetypal, turning into myths and memes that evolve to take on a life of their own... See more