Ideas I want to write about
III. THE LABYRINTH OF SHATTERED HOURS
The opposite of a maze is a route, and a route through time is a story. This is because stories are linear and syntagmatic — each moment of the tale semantically follows from the previous — and this collective meaningfulness anchors the whole thing in memory. This is why studieshaveconsistentlyfound that people... See more
The opposite of a maze is a route, and a route through time is a story. This is because stories are linear and syntagmatic — each moment of the tale semantically follows from the previous — and this collective meaningfulness anchors the whole thing in memory. This is why studieshaveconsistentlyfound that people... See more
How Social Media Shortens Your Life
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How Social Media Shortens Your Life
Thank you for your writing, it's amongst the most memorable/useful on the site for me. This one especially so, as I've been thinking about this topic for years now. After all, I was one of the hesitant youth, prodded and pulled to download snapchat and the rest, only to become utterly trapped by them like everyone else. You're right to describe... See more
How Social Media Shortens Your Life
incredible comment to blog “how social media shortens your life”
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
be your own algorithm
youtube.commedium is the message
attention etc
“every moment in history has been a uniquely bad moment that's the thing about people we always think we're living in especially awful times and we're almost always right”
but isn't this a serious danger that you foresee this lack of identity loss of identity? bbc guy
Danger is of the very element that we live in in the the 20th century and extinction is the immediate possibility every hour of the day. -Marshall McLuhan
We are at war with the opposites; we reject any opposite that doesn’t match our image of ourselves, and we don’t realize something very important: in reality, there are no opposites. Opposites are a creation of the mind.
Jeff Foster • The Deepest Acceptance
The deeper problem, then, is not social media or chatbots. It’s curvilinear mazes. If we can avoid following smooth spirals to nowhere, and instead take sharp turns to clear destinations, we can stay aware and keep track of time. We could even learn to use social media and chatbots — two incredibly useful technologies — in a way that enriches our... See more
How Social Media Shortens Your Life
Gruen effect
How Social Media Shortens Your Life
a psychological phenomenon where entering a store or mall, with its intentionally designed, overwhelming environment, causes consumers to lose their original purpose and become more susceptible to impulse purchases
Theoretically, a social media feed should heighten awareness and memory, and dilate time, because it selects for content that’s exciting, outrageous, and scary. And yet we seldom remember such content. The reason for this discrepancy is simple: when every post is alarming, your brain quickly becomes desensitised, and starts to interpret alarming... See more