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“The contemporary man should not find it difficult to play a role in which modern life is casting him. Glued to his movie or television screen, fed his daily dose of scandals, always watching and never acting, he has become a Peeping Tom.”
Leo Nasskau • René Girard, mimetic desire, and society's biggest rat race
The simulacrum is never what hides the truth-it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true.
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RIP Baudrillard. You would’ve loved Sabrina Carpenter and ChatGPT.
This process directs anti-patriarchal, feminist sentiment into the narrow channel of the mirror, rather than outwards, towards communal, longer-term feminist goals. The soft smiles and high-pitched giggles are admittedly alluring after the disappointments of earlier feminist movements, but the ecstasy of idiocy reveals a darker sentiment than even... See more
On Bimbos and Tradwives - Majuscule
"It is easy to forget how to talk to a person, because you’re not talking to a person: you’re Replying."
Content will be commoditized by AI—but content isn’t culture
From Hamish McKenzie
... See moreThis same surge in AI-led content production will simultaneously fuel a tremendous need for cultural connection: real humans in communion with one another. These relationships help us make sense of the world, and to know where to direct our attention. Their value will
In-spire: breathing in, breathing out, huffing from the sense that there is more to life than materialism (nihilistic metaphysics), utilitarianism (nihilistic ethics), and small-talk (nihilistic speech).
Zohar Atkins • Lightning: A Manifesto
Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works.